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As usual, Helian raises some very interesting issues, and opens up new facets for consideration, in an area where our thinking, can be very constrained.
What a perversity it would be, to see other religions uniting with Islam, to resist attempts by secular governments, to curtail the more extreme religious elements within our society from continually seeking to expand their means, and areas of influence.
As the threat that Islam presents to the world becomes more apparent, and more widely accepted, we will no doubt see even more cynical manipulation of western freedoms, to attempt to restrain the voices of reason that seek to warn of Islam's growing militancy, and expansionist agenda.
Unfortunately for the west, the cynical hypocrisy of Islam, whereby it uses freedoms that Islam itself, does not offer, or believe in, to effectively hamstring any opposition to it, and actually gets away with it's false portrayal of victimhood, rather than as the aggressor in the global battle for religious superiority.
Now if Islam were just a religion, and we were just talking about what people take on board as their personal spirituality, then non religious people would not really care, one way or the other.
But the fact is that Islam is far more than just a spiritual philosophy, it is a theocratic, political regime, with megalomanic goals, which the rest of the world can not afford to overlook, and hope it just goes away.
To understand the potential seriousness of this issue, you need to look to a country like Pakistan, a political, and religious basket case, straining under factional fighting, competing terrorist groups, and corrupt government.
Pakistan is an Islamic country, and it is nuclear armed, and close to the chinese, whose tolerance for potential threats would be far less restrained, than what we could expect from western governments, if the fragile structure that holds the country together, finally broke down.
We see these competing factions within Islam, whose hatred of the west, is only surpassed by their hatred of each other, and the thought of people like that, controlling nuclear weapons, is untenable, yet we see Iran, both denying it is, and justifying why it should, be allowed to go nuclear also.
Frankly, I find the prospect, of any Islamic power at all, controlling nuclear weapons, very troubling.
So we all knew that this whole issue is complex, but just how many different factors do come into play?
How many potential, 'Nightmare', scenarios exist?
One aspect I do take comfort in, is knowing that the factions within Islam, will almost certainly stop it from ever putting forward a united front.
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