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Compare wid WND > CAIR CHIEF'S DESIGN TO "RUN" US REVEALED.
IIUC Artic infers towards Muslims + Radical Islamists working to achieve potent POLITICAL-LEGAL POWER IN THE USA VEE [mostly] NORMAL ELECTORAL PROCESSES.
AKA "POLITICAL-LEGAL JIHAD" + DESIRED FUTURE "ISLAMIC/SHARIA STATE IN AMERICA"???
Interesting interview with the dean of the Orientalists. Including several palpable hits against the New York Time's tradition of determined ignorance, parochial naivete and gullibility. In this broad-ranging interview, Professor Lewis also talks about the impact of female repression, how to handle Iran, and the problem of Turkey and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.
"I think that the tyrannies are doomed," Mr. Lewis says as we sit by the windows in his library, teeming with thousands of books in the dozen or so languages he's mastered. "The real question is what will come instead."
For Americans who have watched protesters in Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Bahrain and now Syria stand up against their regimes, it has been difficult not to be intoxicated by this revolutionary moment. Mr. Lewis is "delighted" by the popular movements and believes that the U.S. should do all it can to bolster them. But he cautions strongly against insisting on Western-style elections in Muslim lands.
Elections, he argues, should be the culminationnot the beginningof a gradual political process. Thus "to lay the stress all the time on elections, parliamentary Western-style elections, is a dangerous delusion."
In Middle Eastern history "consultation is the magic word. It occurs again and again in classical Islamic texts. It goes back to the time of the Prophet himself," says Mr. Lewis.
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CHINESE MILITARY FORUM POSTER > opined that Islamists have less than 100 years [< Year 2080-2100?]to achieve their ambitions or dreams before the World gets off its dependence on ME Oil, + Muslim Govts-States devol towards insignificance.
* SAME > CHINA TO SEND TWO REGIMENTS OF J-10's TO HELP ENFORCE UN NFZ OVER LIBYA???
* SAME > FIRST THE MIDDLE EAST THEN THE WORLD | GLOBALIST BLITZKRIEG SIGNALS LARGEST GEOPOL RE-ORDERING SINCE WW2
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Jerry Pournelle's version: I have no brief for Qadhafi, or for Bashar of Syria, or for Mubarak of Egypt. I will say I have not heard stories of 14 year old girls being lashed to death in public during their watch in their regimes, but that is not a great deal to be said to their credit. Or is it? In some parts of the world it is assumed that 14 year old rape victims will not be beaten to death in public, but there are places where that is demanded by the law, and is it bad form to point out that this is barbarism.
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yeap, we are busy burning the Arabs Oil, while our oil, natural gas and coal sit safely under our feet. Kinda like a bank account. Yep the Arab stuff is expensive, but we can afford it. Someday they will be back on the camels and off to the desert to raise goats. Then we will depete someone else - Brazil comes to mind - these places are for all real intents and purposes colonies. We allow them to have independant governments but all they can sell to the west is their natural resources.
We sit on the largest energy reserves in the world and we get along quit well with our neighbors to the north who also has a butt load of energy resourses.
Let the rest of them sell it off - and then say what happened we used to be rich. The english decended nations,will survive.
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The piece is called "Five Myths about Muslims in America"
Iman (and slumlord) Feisal Abdul Rauf says that Muslims in America are nice, law abiding, Sharia hating, loyal Americans who pay lots of taxes and never kill fluffy bunnies.
Fortunately, because of a recent change in format and the presence of alternate sources of opinion (including opinion that pretends to be fact), very few people read the 'five myths' piece in the WaPo (or the Sunday opinion pieces).
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Well, most of em have to be. Right now they are outnumbered in America. But enough of them are violent enough, or try to be, on a grand scale a LOT of times.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
