"sechumlib" wrote in message
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> On 2007-01-03 13:04:35 -0500, "Billzz" said:
>
>> "sechumlib" wrote in message
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>>> On 2007-01-02 22:11:20 -0500, "Billzz" said:
>>>
>>>> Spent some time in Egypt where they happily promote the ancient
>>>> religions.
>>>
>>> Egypt isn't bound by US constitutional law.
>>
>> No, but there is a parallel. They are overwhelmingly Muslim, and you
>> will see hundreds of people pause for the prayers, but they are not
>> confused about the ancient religions, nor worried that someone might
>> convert to the religion of Isis after a tour of the temple.
>
> Have you ever considered that that might change? Look at the Muslims in
> Afghanistan, who destroyed ancient statues of Buddha because they were
> worried about something like that.
Well, yes. The current Islamic resurgence (but only in some countries) was
predicted....
From my response elswhere....
Read "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order".
by Samuel P. Huntington.
Although written in 1996 it tells what has happened, is happening, and what
will happen, especially in the upcoming conflict of the western civilized
world versus the Islamic challenge.
"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists,
presents a challenging framework for understanding the realities of global
politics in the next century. "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking
of World Order" is one of the most important books to have emerged since the
end of the cold war." - Henry A. Kissinger
"An intellectual tour de force: bold, imaginative, and provocative. A
seminal work that will revolutionize our understanding of international
affairs." - Zbigniew Brzezinski
Samuel P Huntington is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at
Harvard University, where he is also the director of the John M. Olin
Institute for Stategic Studies and the Chairman of the Harvard Academy for
International and Area Studies. He was the director of security planning
for the National Security Council in the Carter administration, the founder
and coeditor of "Foreign Policy" and the president of the American Political
Science Association.
page 209 - "Some Westerners, including President Bill Clinton, have argued
that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent
Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate
otherwise."
page 257 - " Three different compilations of data thus yield the same
conclusion: In the early 1900s Muslims were engaged in more intergroup
violence than were non-muslims, and two-thirds to three-quarters of
intercivilizational wars were between Muslims and non-Muslims. Islam's
borders are bloody and so are its innards."
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