Their manic need to destroy the shrines of other religions (from the Buddhas to temples to churches) tells me they really put way to much stock in the physical "manifestations" of a religion.
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Islam is merely the most successful insane death cult in history. I think that when it totters and falls the collapse will be light years beyond belief, with both mass conversions, mass suicides, and mass murders of the mass "apostates" by the bitter enders.
I predict this is going to go nuclear.
The Russians at least lived in a more or less rational world: MAD worked with both West and East.
MAD means nothing to insane death cultists. They will use nukes as soon as they get them.
My other thought: WATCH TAIWAN! When we "go for it" in Iraq, China is going to move while we are too busy to react.