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A Tipping Point The Muslim Holocaust
I was talking with an Iranian friend of mine the other day. He is an enlightened Middle Easterner and rues the day Khomeini ascended to power in Iran. Unlike many of his fellow countrymen, I have never had trouble discussing many of even the most sensitive issues surrounding Irans recent actions. He displays a clear understanding of exactly why Iran must not obtain nuclear weapons and also knows that a popular uprising to topple the mullahs is less than likely.Here at Rantburg, I often talk about the Global Cultural Genocide that awaits our world should fundamentalist or Salafist Islam come to power. The re-established of a Caliphate could easily be followed by an abandonment of many modern advances such as equal rights for women, coeducational universities, many aspects of modern medicine and other technological advances like camera cell phones. The political ramifications and potential for curtailment of religious freedom, free speech and the right to self-expression all stand at risk. Denmarks recent publication of cartoons brought this into a very glaring light. More than anything, it is the reversion of centuries of medical and technical progress that poses one of the greatest threats to modern culture. Should these advances be abandoned, it would spell the doom of millions, if not, billions of innocent people. As a thought experiment, I asked my Iranian friend how many people would perish in the establishment of a global Caliphate. His immediate offhand estimate was half of the worlds population. I concur with his estimate and had already reached such a conclusion several days ago. This is the tipping point referred to in the title. If Islam continues to press for global domination then the remaining world must clearly understand the consequences that await us. When placed upon the scales, the lives of some 1.25 billion Muslims do not compare, even remotely, to this planets six or seven billion inhabitants. This realization is what finally tipped the scales for myself. The potential deaths of some three billion people quite simply outweigh the outright extermination of 1.25 billion Muslims. Added to that is the fact that our world would continue to proceed apace in its pursuit of modernization, untrammeled by restrictive and outrightly oppressive Islamist constraints. This is what we are confronted with. Losing a huge fraction of this worlds entire population and regressing several centuries or simply eliminating a violent and pathological portion of our globes people who insist upon domination through violent religious conversion and imposition of backwards and archaic theocratic dictum. This is the tipping point I have finally had to recognize. I now advocate direct and unmistakable policy which puts the Islamic world on notice that their quest for imposition of global sharia law is no longer acceptable and that any continuation of violent jihaddist pursuit thereof will eventually result in a global Muslim holocaust. I welcome other points of view and would like this discussion to examine alternate approaches to containing the threat of Islamist domination. Terrorism has already taken a devastating toll upon our modern world and I seek an immediate end to this constant drain of manpower and resources. Each day another 9-11 happens. Another 3,000 people perish of starvation, disease and deprivation. The massive diversion of wealth and effort required to combat Islamist terrorism is no longer acceptable. Too many other people are perishing on a daily basis because a minuscule fraction of an intolerant and violent religion seeks to impose their worldview on an unwilling planet. The vast treasure and Herculean labor currently being expended on securing our world against Islamist terrorism must be redirected back towards addressing this worlds more pressing needs. If Islam is incapable of or unwilling to reign in its own fanatics, then it must pay the price for disrupting so much of our worlds progress towards global peace and international cooperation. Too much is at stake to permit this sort of murderous and repressive culture to abound any further. We have already seen enough of what Islamism intends to imagine that anything less than Global Cultural Genocide awaits us. Posted by: Zenster 2006-02-15 |
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