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 Radical Islam is an ideology that seeks to have an apocalyptic battle for world supremacy. (3)

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Radical Islam is an ideology that seeks to have an apocalyptic battle for world supremacy.

The following quote is from **Joel C. Rosenberg** new book, **"Inside the Revolution"**

 

"“Radical Islam seeks to correct what its disciples see as an accident of history, where the West has risen and Islam has declined. The correction is supposed to be accomplished
by the resurrection of an Islamic empire and the acquisition and use of nuclear weapons, if necessary, to obliterate Islam’s enemies, and to subjugate the rest. This is a pathological ideology, much like Nazism was. And it poses a threat, in my judgment, in many ways bigger than Nazism because Hitler embarked on a world conflict and then sought
to achieve nuclear weapons, whereas the leading radical Islamic regime, Iran, is seeking to first acquire nuclear weapons and then embark on a world conflict. And that is what is not yet understood in the West, and certainly, if it’s understood, it’s not acted upon.


“Once Iran has nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu continued, “they could threaten the West in ways that are unimaginable today. They could take over the Persian Gulf on all its sides and take control of the oil reserves of the world, most of them. They could topple Saudi Arabia
and Jordan in short order. And, of course, Iraq. All your internal debates in America on Iraq would be irrelevant, because nuclear-armed Iran would subordinate Iraq in two seconds. And, of course, they threaten to create a second Holocaust in Israel and proceed on their idea of building a global empire, producing twenty-five atomic bombs a year—250 bombs in a decade—with missiles that they are already working on, to reach the eastern seaboard of the United States. Everything else pales in comparison to this development. This has to be stopped.”"

 

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oh no, I'm scared again, we better suspend our rights, start torturing people again, and begin random wars in different places for no apparent reason.

The problem with these quotes is that it assumes that Americans in general aren't already aware that radical Islam is a bad thing, and that they're not trying to get their hands on nukes. We know this already.

I just don't see it as an excuse to act like a country of a-holes.

We've done a great job thus far of preventing them from getting the bomb, and we should continue to use reason and diplomacy to do this.

I don't understand the point of this call to war. Is it Rosenberg's hope that we invade Iran tomorrow?

This is just dumb.

Invading them would only brew more hatred, and make it more likely that they'll get their hands on a nuke sooner.

Side: dumb
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Yes, the little Shiites have lost their minds ;)

Plus, I believe everything I read ;)

And besides, it doesn't matter. We all have to go sometime, one way or another. It might as well be in a blaze of glory ;)

We're living in exciting times. Now if only it all coincides with 2012 ;)

Side: Freaking Radicals
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Yes they are! Radicals are going to DESTROY THE WORLD!!BA HA HA HA HA!!!

But they gots to hurry if they are gonna get what they want by the end of the world!

Side: Radicals Freaking