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Old 02-18-2008, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by concheet View Post
1.5 billion Muslims ( http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html ) multiplied by .01 (1%) = 15,000,000 Muslims. Fifteen million. More 'extremists' than there are Jews in the world today.
Well, I was being generous with the 1%. But even that adds up to less than half the population of Afghanistan.

There are 1 billion people in Europe and the United States. There are 2 billion Christians worldwide. Do you really believe that even 15 million idjits are going to conquer them?

And if you think they'll take a gradual approach, establishing Islamic states in the Middle East and then spreading outward, again I think that's just fantasy. When the loonies actually did take over the asylum -- Afghanistan under the Taliban -- what happened? Sanctuary for militants, sure, but a totally imploded economy and infrastructure, driven in no small part by their Sharia law, which pretty much forbade education of any serious sort and all but crushed the almost irrepressible entrepreneurial zeal of the Afghan people. They posed zero existential threat to their neighbors.

Extremist fundamentalist Islam is incredibly self-destructive.
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