Posted on 10/02/2007 12:51:24 PM PDT by Squidpup
That’s because everything offends them and they expect everyone else to accomodate them and no tolerance for anyone else.
Show me an islamic-made automobile.
Okay then, how about an appliance, like a microwave oven or a toaster?
Bicycle?
About The Article Islam: The 21st Century Superpower and the Emergence of an Islamic Union
The purpose of this article is to introduce the hypothesis that Islam is growing demographically, economically and culturally into the 21st Century Superpower. The engine for this development is the economic, cultural, demographic, and theological strength of the global Islamic community that will more than likely lead to the development of a global Islamic Union.
Steven Watts is the sole author of this publication. He is currently completing his doctorate in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary where his dissertation is focused on studying the development of the Multicultural Corporation and the connection between corporate profits, poverty and corruption in the country of Chad. A central part of his research has been the study of Islamic Economics and how Islamic models of stewardship can be applied to managing natural, intellectual, and cultural capital and resources in the fight against poverty and corruption. The arguments presented herein are based on three years of direct research in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East conducted by Steven in support of his doctorate. This article represents preliminary findings in support of this research and supports a core part of his hypothesis that collaboration between multinational corporations, community and theological leaders is the only way that poverty and corruption will ever truly be eradicated from the landscape of human history.
Steven Watts is just another typical, deluded, intellectual elitist moron. Hey Steven, in case you haven't noticed, the influence of Islam has been declining for the last 600 years.
What an idiot.
Good catch and interesting range of comments from everyone!
That is to say, if the 21st Century were just like the 7th Century!
Sadly, Islam reached its zenith a thousand years ago and hasn't advanced much in the interim, and at present has *NOTHING* going for it except for demographics and a temporary emhancement in the value of a natural resource called oil which happens to be found under the ground they live on right now.
other than luck, having four wives and being a bit more bloodthirsty in forcing their medieval beliefs on others, they don't have much going for them it seems to me.
sorry. luck just isn't enough to get into the superpower game.
Their power comes from two things: they are willing to be aggressive, and the West no longer has the will
It wasn't the Islamic libraries as much as a decreasing threat of Islamic piracy. Constantinople retained all of Greek learning, and once trade could resume, those books could go to Venice, where new printing presses would make copies for all of Europe.
The Muslims never had much interest in Greek philosophy or literature. They translated a few works relating to science, mathematics, and medicine. Once trade could resume, people could get those works in the original Greek
Economic?
If you subtract the oil they happen to live above, Muslims’ GDP per head is approximately the lowest in the world, save Sub-Saharan Africa.
Economic Superpower?
If you subtract the oil they happen to live above, Muslims’ GDP per head is approximately the lowest in the world, save Sub-Saharan Africa.
I’m pretty sure muslims couldn’t make a transistor radio without importing every single machine from the West.
I say *can* because after so many years of emasculating liberalism I wonder if we will.
If an Islamic Union does develope, get ready for World War III, with atomic weapons. The Islamic World doesn’t want peace, justice, or good will. Only destruction and nihilism.
“wait until (a) Oil runs dry or (b) A feasible substitute is found.. What will the basis of their financial prowess be then?” .................. Opium,Pot just a couple of cash crops?
I remember in the mid-90s, when people were peeing themselves over how Japan's economy was sounder than ours and they were going to be the next superpower....
btt
You said a mouthful.
So long as this situation continues, the West is in danger.
And I see nothing that indicates the situation is about to change.
The Islamic "will" to assert itself and challenge the West trumps the West's lack of will to defend its culture, and our inability to use our physical weapons against Islam. Quite frankly, at this stage of history, their "weapons" seem to be more powerful than ours.
Nearly everywhere that Islam chooses to "push against" Western culture and values, the West does little to push back and assert such culture and values against the foul values of Islam. Indeed, to the contrary, we bend over backwards to accomodate them and assuage their offended sensibilities.
We will see at least one or two nations of Europe fall to Islam before 2040. The Europeans have lost the will, and no longer have the demographic manpower (i.e., a supply of white/Euro/Christian males of fighting age willing to defend their ground against Islam) to mount a counter-challenge.
By the, those remaining nations of Western Europe will realize that they, too, must fight back or fall beneath Islam's boot. But by then they, too, may have become so weakened by demographics (of aging populations unable or no longer willing to resist) that it will be too late for them as well.
It will take the fall of Europe for the remainder of the English-speaking world to understand the crisis we face.
Perhaps by then we will realize that there can be a future for the West, or for Islam - but NOT for both. Then, and ONLY then, will the West begin to comprehend that to secure its own future will require a struggle that will make all previous conflicts pale by comparison. And by that time, there will emerge only a single objective: to win - by any means and at all costs. And those costs will be gruesome.
Robert Spencer is dead on when he says
"While those who know how Sharia institutionalizes the oppression of women and non-Muslims may recoil at this prospect, Watts is certainly being a realist given the world situation and the abysmal failure of the West so far to respond to the full reality of the Islamic supremacist challenge in all its dimensions"
Islam handed us its calling card on September 11, 2001. Since then we toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan, and since then, the "legitimate" government of Afghanistan is now making noise about re-admitting the Taliban into that very government once again.
Since then, we toppled Saddam, and allowed the Iraqis to form a new "democratic" governmet - which promptly wrote into its constitution that Islam would be the state religion. And we now see reports detailing how the Christian Iraqis who are still in that country are being persecuted, simply for _being_ Christians.
Meet the new boss - same as the old boss.
The "boss" is NOT the regimes we toppled in the MidEast; it is Islam itself.
The "regime" that we must rid the world of.... is Allah's.
As of yet, I have seen NOTHING that indicates to me that the leaders of the West understand this, or are willing to confront Islam head-on.
When will this change?
- John
Very good comments.
So then, it is a spiritual war we are in.
Islam will get to the moon by the twenty fifth century.
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