Is the war coming? (Islamists threatened Denmark and Norway's citizens...)?
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Yes, it is more then possible that World War III could be coming. It is not as close as you think. Muslims around the world are angry at the European Nations whos free press printed the caricatures. Many of those European Nation's have high muslim minority populations. Their Governments must decide between a free press or respect of Qu'ran law which states that Muhammad is never to be depicted. The Third World War will no doubt be religiously related with Russia and China on the side of the extreme muslims.
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I think we are unchartered waters on this one.  We have never fought an enemy of this nature before so where to draw the line and how far to take it will depend on the world's willingness to stop the terror attacks.  As we saw with Spain, not all countries view this war the same.  But, unless there is a concerted effort on the part of all governments that value freedom to destroy the terrorists throughout the world we will never end this.  Afghanistan and Iraq are the tip of the iceberg.  The Islamic terrorists, and make no mistake that that is who this war is directed at, have the ability to travel all over the world and use the tools of cowards to continue their jihad.  Since we are not fighting a standing army, and I doubt that our estimates of people involved in terrorist oganizations is close to accurate, we cannot know when we "get them all".  The ultimate solution will have to come from a coalition of world governments being willing to root out these organizations on their soil and drive them into a corner where they are considered, and please forgive the use of the term, lepers.  Once they are seen as un-touchable (in that no one wants to touch them or allow them safe haven) then we can talk about drawing lines.
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Dear Friend,\n\nThat's a very interesting question.  \n\nPart of the problem is that the peoples of different nations believe many different things.  The religions of one nation condemn the religions of their neighbors.  The way of life in Nation A can be repugnant to everyone in Nation B.  As long as ideas are at war, people will be at war.\n\nIn addition to the culture clash, there's the general sense of people everywhere that political control should be local.  The feeling is that decisions concerning our lives shouldn't be made by people "over there" who don't have the sense of how our day to day life progresses.  \n\nLastly, there's a philosophical shift that we'd have to make between being a citizen of our nation and a citizen of the world.  It's in the works -- witness the EU -- but slowly, and with much resistance.  And that's normal.  Big changes take time.\n\nYour Friend,\nFrancesois
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Only for the most radical and extreme elements of the Islam nations. Most rational people in that part of the world know that only bad things happen when WMD's are "in play". Being the cynic that I am, I could foresee all kinds of social and political unrest between the extremists and contemporary citizens, that is IF they stand up to the extemists....we'll see, if not, Holy Sh*t (no pun intended).
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I fear we are on the verge of a war like none we have ever seen before. All the modern wars of the world combined into one gigantic battle is on the horizon. Nations are going to rise up against other nations who, at one point, were their allies. And within nations, groups are going to rise against other groups in unparalleled civil war. Allies will rise up to assist, only to turn on their comrades.
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Come & visit Europe! No?\nOK. It's your choice.\n\nWhy don't you visit the North- or Southpole?\nIt's way to cold up/downthere for these M.F.-suicide-bombers-terrorists !\n:-)
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Both, really. It was the Danish press exercising their right (under Danish law) to free press, and it was disrespectful to a certain religion.\n\nBut we don't see Christians burning flags and torching embassies b/c of unusual (and blasphemous) creations as "Piss Christ", or Jews sending death threats to the Muslim state-sponsored newspapers running virulent cartoons equating Nazis and Zionists.\n\nMuslims need to come to the 21st century, or we might have to bomb them to the Stone Age.\n\nAnhar : Let's see, freedom is slavery, where have I heard that before? ;) Let's face it, we're dealing with a group of people who have been conditioned to accept "The Truth" as the only acceptable answer, and if you dare to disbelieve, then you're wrong and it's off with your head :<
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Or you could save all these secret groups and Denmark the trouble and just go live in a pure islamic country.  And what the hell is a Halocaust and hitory?\n\nIt must suck to be you and think everyone wants you obliterated.  That is assuming your wrong......
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Well, this "flag waving moron" right here, thinks that if the dems get their way, we shall soon look like Spain and France.  Crippled by terrorism.\n\nMuslim at 20-25% of the world's religion right now.  Why haven't we heard from them?
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It's been very under the radar but a Taliban like movement is happening in Somalia right now.  These Taliban like radical Muslims have taken over 1/2 of Somalia and turned it into radical Muslim state that is looking a lot like Afghanistan (before 9/11) and that means a serious terrorist training ground.  So that's why the US military is in the Horn because Somalia might turn into the next Al Qaeda training site and that would be much worse than Iraq.
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Yes, I read the comment from the director of MI5.  I believe it is plausable.  As far as solutions, we as the public ar limited, I mean really the majority of muslims are alright, it's just the fanatics.  Should we punish them all, for actions of the few? No. However, I do feel that the muslim community in general, should take a little more pro-active approach to encouraging this type of behaviour to stop.  They should denounce hate pedalers and encourage prosecution of people who incite violence against people who don't follow their religion.  They have done this on a few occasions but more is needed.  MI5 says they are following 1600 people, good, hopefully any plots should be foiled.  If there are more bombings, it will get alot worse for muslims in the UK.  As far as apologies and running away from Iraq, that's not a solution.  Those are chicken sh*t tactics, and is exactly what the fundamentalists want, so they can spew more hate fueled rhetoric, calling the west heartless, weak, scared, defeated, and call for the destruction of the zionist empire next.  Blah,Blah,Blah.  All we can do, is remain vigilent in our own communities and rely on spy agencies to do their job.  After all, they already took away our fire arms, so we have to leave any response to the government.
807252
Agreed. Nothing is going to help over there. Shrub is trying to reverse umpteen thousand years of religious hatred for the sake of "democracy" and it's just goiing to get more of us killed. Woo-hoo!. Good times. (But not really)
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Please take your Propaganda to Political category.  This is Reiligions and Spirituality not for this type of crap\n\nAnd this is a common strategy of your religion, create problems and when other party retaliate, play the victim and cry loud--oh we are being persecuted for being muslims"\n\nThe blood is shed on the other side too !!  Their children are also losing parents... But since terrorist countries  want Israel to vanish...this war will continue for ever.\n\nIf Israle is against Muslim, why he does not kill Egyptians,Jordanians, saudis, UAE, and other peaceful countries in Gulf??
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I pointed this out in another post.\n\nIt's a possibility and not only in the US (I live in Italy) and not always with the hostility of the whole population!\nMuslims for example have planned to gain power by outnumbering the original rulers of the countries they settle in.\nIf that makes you laugh in the the case of US, in places like Italy, Netherlands, Germany and France the problem is very very serious. Not only they are becoming A LOT, but they also refuse to integrate, while claiming for rights they would never give us if they lived in theirs.\nEven worse, in cases like Italy, part of the political arena is welcoming them, in order to gain votes. All Italian left parties are welcoming all immigrates to come in, providing them with economical support, free houses, free health, free education and all. \nWe'll soon feel the effects of this invasion, especially from muslims, who are the most aggressive ones (as they do in every country where they go).
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Yemenis Scholars Condemns Denmark Abuses against Prophet\n\nSANA'A -- Yemen Scholars Association and Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) strongly condemned the publication of cartoons which depict Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in an insulting way by a Danish newspaper, according to a report by the Yemen News Agency (Saba) Monday.\n\nThe YJS asked the Danish Journalists Syndicate to promptly interfere to solve this sensitive case and attacks against Islam under the pretext of freedom of expression.\n\nhttp://www.yobserver.com
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One could say that we are in WWIII right now, although most unlike WWI and WWII.  Seeing so many violent protests throughout the Muslim world over the cartoons of Mohammed published by Danish and other European newspapers, I can't help but think that the conflict between the Muslim world and the Western world has been escalating for centuries, and will soon erupt into a much larger scale conflict.  It's not about the war on terror, Bush trying to take over the world, Oil-rich capitatlists trying to manipulate the government, but an age old conflict of political ideology, religous beliefs, nationalistic pride, etc.\n\nBut if you refer to an all-out conventional/nuclear war between the most powerful countries of the world, i.e. America, Britain, France, India, Israel, vs. Russia, Iran, China, Pakistan; then my answer is no, thanks to globalization.  No matter how precarious relations between the world's most powerful and/or influential nations may be, most politicans will realize that such a large scale war is economically stupid, when even unsound peace is economically preferable.
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Yes, this is all just the beginning.\n\nSee if you look at the world today you will notice chain reactions happening all over the world that started on that day.  Example: the worlds distrust of the US.\n\nYes, a lot of things lead up to it, but it was the calmination of everything prior.\n\nBut don't worry just yet.  WWII started off a little skirmish it was a couple years before it became a blown out war.  The time you should worry is when another superpower enters this little skirmish or when it truelly becomes a religious war.\n\nYes, I know it seems that this is a religious war, but it's really just a political war right now.  If you noticed even on this forum it's becoming more religious every day. It still a man(Bin Lauden) using religion to do something political.  Eventually this will turn into a religious war or another World War; either way it will be the war to end all wars.