Red blooded Americans should never make a pact with the Devil to prevent one of his Serpents.
Be true.
Faust
Posted on 02/13/2011 8:35:02 AM PST by kingattax
Five years ago, Lt. Col James G. Lacey published the article "The Impending Collapse of Arab Civilization" in The Naval Institute: Proceedings." He disputed the conclusions of two books which have particularly influenced recent foreign policy and grand strategy: The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror, by Bernard Lewis, and The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington.
In his article, he stated:
A more accurate understanding of events leads to the conclusion that Arab, not Muslim, civilization is in a state of collapse, and it just happens that most Arabs are Muslims. In this regard, the fall of the Western Roman Empire was a collapse of Western Europe and not a crisis of Christianity.
His thesis was that while Islam itself continues to grow and thrive around the world (and indeed, is continuing to make swift inroads into Western states), it has been specifically in the Arab world where one has seen the turmoil of civilization in decay.
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Wealth is a personal perception. Wasn't it surprising how many iPhones were in Tahrir Square? All the cars of the little people are large sedans. They dress like westerners and 60% of Egypt's population is 25 and younger.
Does anyone know how Soros might be involved in any of this African uprising?
We live in exciting times.
Arab “civilization” should have collapsed with the advent of tracked vehicles and international laws against the slave trade and brigandry.
There will be no Mahdi.
By the end times, temple sacrifice in Jerusalem will be restored.
Ergot, no Islam.
Likely Medina and Mecca will Have been utterly destroyed - which unambiguously disproves the Koran and the Hadith.
Per God’s promise to Hagar the Arabs will still be as big a pain in the ass as ever.
They did. Of course, seeing its decline in the present it a bit late. Arab civilization’s decline began with Mohammed and was completed by Al Ghazali, or rather by the universal embrace of Al Ghazali’s occasionalism by Sunni Islam.
If things are headed towards what you claim, you had better get busy. It looks like the very opposite is a reality.
Arab's were, at one time, the center of civilization. The works of Rome and Greece were preserved and studied. Medicine, such as it was, was better than in Europe. Scholarship was prized.
Later the attitude towards learning and books became “if they disagree with the Quran they are heresy, if they agree with the Quran they are superfluous - let them burn”
In recalling that past, the modern jihadist fights against the very wellspring of what made that past great.
Will Greer was sooo great in that role ! One of his best !
In short, there is NO Muslim civilization. It is only the claiming of the heritage the prior civilizations had as Islamic as it drives them down to the dust-bin of history.
Under the various uprising countries’ keywords, there are some topics (Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, more).
Much scholarship was also done in their civilization by non-Arabs, including many Jews. Making it ironic that in the modern day they extol the bygone era yet they wish to expunge one of the sources of any claim to greatness of their civilization - that they adopted the learning and practices of older civilized people and allowed them a place in civil society as scholars and doctors and merchants - civilization.
The quote I provided was said as the Library at Alexandria burned.
But yeah, the population of Egypt is mostly too young to remember a time before Mubarak, so it was a big deal when he left office, regardless of how any one person may have felt about the loss.
And the miniaturized electronics which helped us win the space race and close the missile gap have made it difficult, at best, to keep the lid on. Those poor, misunderstood despots... when the USSR fell apart, it was due to an attempted coup. Boris Yeltsin and others communicated with the outside world via the fax machines, which is what they had, and it was newly ubiquitous technology. Saved their bacon.
(Plink!)I gavest thee this,
(Plank!)I gavest thee that,
(Tinkle!)And still thou
(Plinkity)Wouldst not love me, (pause)
(STRUMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!)Lady Greensleeves!
YEAH! WAY better music...you could understand the words!
(Plink!)I gavest thee this,
(Plank!)I gavest thee that,
(Tinkle!)And still thou
(Plinkity)Wouldst not love me, (pause)
(STRUMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!)Lady Greensleeves!
YEAH! WAY better music...you could understand the words!
:’P :’) :’D
Just for the record, you descended into moonbat territory when you attempted to discount the re-establishment of Israel.
Except for this really huge hard to explain away evidence, please give me some things easier to deny.
I suggest the temple will be rebuilt after the fall of Islam.
Allah, as described in the Koran and the Hadith has invested himself in Mecca and Medina. If he exists, those two cities holy to Islam cannot be destroyed. Leveling them will topple the religion, unlike the God of the Bible who is not invested in places, but in people.
:’) Introduction of the wheel would make their civilization (such as it is) collapse, if that hadn’t happened so long ago.
But the meat is rancid
Rome was sacked by the Gauls in 387 BC. That's why we only have the legends about its founding and no written records from before that year.
Faust
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