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I can’t help but think about the hallucinogen-inspired moniker from William S. Burroughs’ “A Naked Lunch” - Islam Incorporated - referring to a pervasive, omnipresent threat to freedom.
a clear visual on a well defined target!
BLOAT
OK, I went to the website just to see what it had to offer. The first thing that I saw was a map of the Islamic world which included most of Christian sub-Saharan Africa and Mongolia. I’m surprised Europe isn’t there, too.
I came across this quote:
“The power of the Islamic Superpower will reside primarily in its economic, cultural and theological foundations. The most powerful and compelling distinction of this superpower is that for the first time in the history of the world, a global superpower will not be constrained by nationalistic motives or geographic limitations of artificial borders. This new Islamic Superpower will possess the ability to effectively fight poverty and corruption where the Western powers have failed. It will be the most effective, if not only legitimate response to radical Islamic fundamentalism.”
The Communists had the same thematic premise (minus the theological pretensions, of course). They thought they were the new supranational world movement.
In reality, they were thugs interested in power who killed tens of millions of people.
The biggest laugher here is the claim that Islam will cure poverty and hunger - when those countries already Islamic have immense numbers of poor (when without oil), immense distances between the rich and poor (with oil), and huge numbers of uneducated, illiterate masses (with and without oil). I expect Islam to bring the same kind of problems to the world in this century that the Communists brought to the world in the 20th century.
“”Islam is emerging as the cultural and economic Superpower of the 21st Century.”
Ridiculous. They are the hillbillies of the world. All they have is oil and that is not very much. Was in the Seventies, but not now.
This is the Non-Event of the day and the century. Ain’t happening.
If they do, they are either abjectly ignorant, apologists/propogandists, or they are out and out liars.
In most of those countries a very small, miniscule portion of the population (like in almost any tyranical dictatorship) sits on top of and is benefitting from the labors and putting down the rest of the population.
And in even those countries, those minority leaderships have benefited the most themselves who have invited non-Islamic, particularly western, technology, research, and development into their borders.
An urge to oppress doesn’t produce much culture, and an eagerness to destroy doesn’t produce much wealth. So much for Islam as a 21st Century ‘cultural and economic superpower’ — unless, by comparison, there’s nothing else left of the planet but an vast, empty wasteland.
While all this is certainly theoretically possible, I think it’s a lot more likely that some Islamic psychopath will eventually do something so stupid that it will unite the civilized world against them and end up bringing ruin and destruction on their people.
Muslim majority states generally are not developing as fast as other poor countries. Nor has the Muslim world yet succeeded in unifying into a single Caliphate.
LOL wait until (a) Oil runs dry or (b) A feasible substitute is found.. What will the basis of their financial prowess be then?
As long as the West wakes up in time, we can win. Fortunately we’re are hearing some people waking up. If more don’t, however, better brush up on your beheading technique.
This article has got to be the most ridiculous that I’ve seen of late. Superpower? Super as in destruction.
Islam is no more a superpower or even a religion as far as I am concerned. It similar to communish, nazism etc.
‘Islamic culture’ is an oxymoron.
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Nope. Muslims are too damn dumb. Not enough of them either. China, India, South America. Those are the emerging superpowers of this century.
The only Science articles from the entire Middle East that I have ever seen/read/referenced have been from Israel. The intellectual output of Israel outpaces the ENTIRE ISLAMIC world.
A half billion people who expend the majority of their energy keeping the other half billion in reproductive slavery and intellectual stagnation; and they wonder why the rest of the world has left them so very far behind?
“Superpower”??
They ride camels, fight like cowards hiding behind women and children, and follow a cult called Islam. Hardly a “superpower”.
Islam as a governmental force was only superior to the tribalism that it superseded. Its selling point was that it was a more efficient way of doing business. It succeeded only as long as it was a superior way, and was about on a par with feudal Europe as far as it went.
However, while Europe continued to evolve better forms of government and management, a Muslim scholar by the name of al-Ghizali (spelling is important, as there were several with similar names) in the late 12th and early 13th Centuries, created a fundamentalist philosophy which ended Islam’s intellectual development.
While in Persia, as a xenophobic response to the threat of foreign invasion, he proposed that the only knowledge of importance was to be found in the Koran, and that all other knowledge was inherently evil, as it distracted people from studying the Koran.
Thereafter, in a slow progression from Persia, all progress in the arts and sciences in the Ummah started to die. Ironically, the last major repositories of classical and at the time modern learning were kept in the far reaches of the Muslim empire, in Spain. And these libraries fell to the advancing Christians, where they reignited learning in Europe and helped end the Dark Ages.
As the Ottoman Empire withered, finally collapsing after World War I, only then was the beginning of the end of the Muslim Dark Ages.
However, paradoxically, Muslims still pretend that Islam is a better way, as it was over primitive tribalism. But even to the poor and ignorant, this is not the case. So Islam has become dependent on coercion and violence to maintain its hold, instead of the offer of “a better way.” And if they lose this hold over its followers, they leave it in droves.
The flood of Muslims leaving Islam deeply concerns their leaders who know of it, and they are at a loss to explain it.
But Islam is not a system that will eventually win out over modernity. For this reason, there is a good chance that eventually a movement will arise that will blatantly disregard the primitive and violent aspects of Islam, and reinterpret it in modern terms. Though they will be bitterly opposed by fundamentalist Muslims, the rationalizations will have tremendous appeal to the average Muslim.
This is the “have your cake and eat it, too” scenario, in which the more repugnant elements of their religion are discarded in favor of practical and modern reformation.