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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (49712)	5/10/2004 2:01:10 AM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

<<Do you see the power of Islam decreasing there now?>> When Indonesia was growing at 8% a year (pre-Asian meltdown of 1998) it could absorb 2.5million newcomers into the workforce. The only trouble spot was East Timor. Economy melted, trouble is everywhere. And trouble by Moslems. They became more radical. Why? Because the economy's not going well, they start listening to some old fogies drumming them outdated religious beliefs. Why Malaysia is quiet? Because the economy is doing well. The point I am trying to make is that Moslems can only live in peace if there's no adversity around them. Whereas other people resort to make their disatisfaction using other means, theirs, is to retreat to the year 700AD!! The more they retreat, the farther is the solution for the economic problems they're facing. It spirals down into the old fogies that lead them advocating a caliphate and the usual stuff: cover women, head to toe, close down the bars, stone to death adulterous people, and chop the hands of the thieves and the heads of the murderers. Hence the message they are sending is: lets create our own oasis and there we can leave in peace. That's the last stage before they will extinguish as fast as the ex-USSR did. OK, we can have museum countries like Cuba and North Korea. But the USSR is long gone. There will obviously will be a Moslem North Korea and a Cuba, but the main countries collapsed. The amount of money required to keep the Moslem crowds on a leash is huge! And it can only be kept quiet financed by higher oil prices. Revenue form oil prices down mean a lot of trouble for those Moslem countries. The Gulf countries have noticed that. See how the oil price going up? A result of the trouble bubbling in other places and threatening to coming closer to home. Saudi's Islamic Development Bank could finance countries that walked the Moslem line. This money is going to dry up. The time scale is about 30 years maximum. Moslems have it coming.