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Originally Posted by Professor S
There will be blood in the streets on every Western European nation within 10-15 years. Islam will grow to the point that it will not tolerate Western/Christian democracy and there will be violence that makes the violence seen today look like a Cabbage Patch picnic. We can already see the signs today. First the month long riot that ran across France, now embassies are being attacked and news organizations are knucking under to fear because of a ****ING CARTOON.
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Lot of talk of a clash of civilizations over this cartoon. The NY Times had a great editorial a couple weeks back about it. The Iranian response is to make cartoons about Hitler sleeping with Anne Frank -- funny how we're not rioting to such childish, sophomoric antics.
I also think the violence is ridiculous and it leads me to believe that there are some differences between the west and Muslims that won't be resolved with, "here's your democracy, now don't blow each other up."
But as all signs seem to point to a clash of civilizations -- ie. the French riots and now the cartoon riots -- I wonder if I'm not just looking for the simple answer and forgetting something. I mean, clash of civlizations seems to be what's happening, but is it really? Is there actually going to be a civilization war from here on out? Will that actually lead to an all out war, WWIII perhaps?
Something good that comes from this: I think the majority of Europe is finally waking up to how idiotic and dangerous radical Islam is. Maybe they'll stop their appeasement now ie. Spain appeasement, ie. France, Germany, Italy, etc. being anti-Iraq war. I don't know if they're actually waking up, but since many newspapers throughout Europe are reprinting the cartoons in solidarity with the Danish newspaper in support of freedom of the press, my feeling is that they're waking up.