Post by AztecWilliam on Apr 2, 2011 17:46:38 GMT -8
What are things going to look like when the dust settles in the Middle East? Based on this article, I am not optimistic. I have to believe that the West in general and the U.S. in particular are going to be in serious trouble.
We don't like the values and religious intolerance of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Imagine what it would be like if that worldview ruled from Libya all the way to Iran? With an islamist government in power in every one of those countries. . . including Arabia.
Let's see; that would put the Suez Canal and a huge chunk of the world's oil reserves in the hands of people who think that the appropriate penalty for stealing a purse is to cut off the thief's hand. People who, in addition, generally hate everything the West stands for, such as equality for women.
How does that sound to you?
www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/world/middleeast/02salafi.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=todayspaper
AzWm
We don't like the values and religious intolerance of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Imagine what it would be like if that worldview ruled from Libya all the way to Iran? With an islamist government in power in every one of those countries. . . including Arabia.
Let's see; that would put the Suez Canal and a huge chunk of the world's oil reserves in the hands of people who think that the appropriate penalty for stealing a purse is to cut off the thief's hand. People who, in addition, generally hate everything the West stands for, such as equality for women.
How does that sound to you?
www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/world/middleeast/02salafi.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=todayspaper
AzWm