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To: Conservative Coulter Fan; All
For Christians who think that the future of the world favors movement in their direction, a study of the latent dynamism of Islam is not a little unsettling.

I'm actually not worried about Islam taking the West over.

Islam is chiefly a danger for two reasons:

1) It DOES have many members who have a penchant for committing acts of violence against "infidels", and who therefore constitute a physical threat to those around them.

2) Islam has a way of pushing the limits with decadent Westerners such that I fear that, especially in Europe, eventually something will snap - and that snap will occur when the Europeans go nuts and start rounding up Muslims and putting them in concentration camps. It's not as if Europe is without precedent in that regard.

I do not believe that Islam is an actual existential threat to the West, however. I do not fear that Islam is just one step away from conquering us (though not for the lack of trying). Far from viewing Islam as a dynamic, forward-moving ideology, I view Islam as regressive, static, and shrinking. Islam has been on the recession for centuries. The West still - to this day - continues to possess increasingly more real power - in military, cultural, and economic term - than the Muslim world does.

Islam has lost, since it's apex, the Iberian peninsula, much of the Asian steppe, most of the Balkans, 90% of the Indian subcontinent, Sicily and Malta, half of Cyprus, Israel, and is losing adherents to Christianity at an ever-accelerating rate in Africa.

Islam is not an existential threat to us. It is merely an annoyance, a cornered, degraded civilisation with a penchant for lashing out in violent, yet ultimately ineffectual, ways.

21 posted on 04/18/2009 6:23:37 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Third Parties are for the weak, fearful, and ineffectual among us.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

I guess those people that jumped flaming out of the WTC were just ‘annoyed’ at this little irritation.


26 posted on 04/18/2009 6:44:04 PM PDT by Tolsti2
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Over the past 400 years Islam has lost more than half the territory it held as late as 1600.

The Romanovs definitely did some damage eh!

BTW, most posters on this thread have such a Western European bias they appear to have no idea what was going on in what became Russia!

30 posted on 04/18/2009 6:56:18 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

While I believe that communism is a more serious threat than islam is to the U.S., I wouldn’t downplay the importance of Europe’s growing mohammedan population. Coupled with Europe’s dwindling population and the moral ambivalence of her populace, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to see Europe succumbing to islam within the next 100 or so years.

Man, now I’m depressed... :(


43 posted on 04/18/2009 8:02:16 PM PDT by Constantine XI Palaeologus ("Vicisti, Galilaee")
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
"Islam is not an existential threat to us. It is merely an annoyance, a cornered, degraded civilization with a penchant for lashing out in violent, yet ultimately ineffectual, ways. "

George Patton wrote a poem just for people just like you.

48 posted on 04/18/2009 8:27:35 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
“Islam is not an existential threat to us. It is merely an annoyance”

OK, you say that they have lost territory, but with asymmetrical war and Weapons of Mass destruction, it doesn't take a large number of men to wipe us out.

Just one nuke in a dozen of our major cities. They don't need huge armies. Right?

50 posted on 04/18/2009 8:36:58 PM PDT by garjog (Used to be liberals were just people to disagree with. Now they are a threat to our existence.)
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