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To: ManyMoose who wrote (758962)	2/8/2007 7:15:46 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: [Islamic Reformation will finally emerge.] "I don't see that happening any time soon...." That is why I only put that down as a 'long-term' possibility. Though, that is exactly what history shows us was required for the Christian Reformation to happen in the West --- well over a century of extremely bloody and financially disastrous inter-Christian warfare in Europe... before a certain measure of religious toleration for divergent views, and even secularism in politics, emerged. So... it is not altogether unreasonable to expect that Islam will have to fight Islam for a considerable period of time... before the public on both sides of the Sunni/Shiite schism grows despairing enough to conclusively reject fundamentalist extremism. (Hopefully though, this being a more modern world, and everything so much more speeded-up these days... it will not take anywhere near as long as the Century of religious warfare that it took Christianity to reach a political phase where the Reformation [& then the Enlightenment] became viable!) An ancillary benefit, is that the Arab and Iranian publics would no-doubt grow to REJECT their corrupt, Autocratic rulers even sooner... for producing this bloody course of events! And, of course, the SHORT-TERM and the LONG-TERM benefits for the West are much more certain... practically etched in the pages of future history books already... so, regardless of how close Islam is to it's long-overdue Reformation... we stand to BENEFIT GREATLY almost IMMEDIATELY by getting out of the way of the Islamic civil war: In the short-term --- extremists would be pitted against each other, diverted from attacking our guys by the exigencies of their NEW CRISIS, the expanded inter-regional civil war in Iraq. In the mid-term --- oil prices would fall globally as BOTH sides pumped full-out to try to keep their heads above water and finance their war efforts. (Saudi Arabia has already warned that they would pump full-out to lower oil prices to try to weaken the Iranians... deprive them of the money they would need to fight the Sunnis. Saudi Arabia has ALSO stated that it would step up it's support for the Sunni battles against the Shia, and so would many/most of the other Gulf Sunnis.)