From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 14:00:05 MDT
MMB interjected:
<<On a Personal Fear scale of, let's say, 0 is "No kidding, seeing a live
spider scares me into cardiac arrest" and 10 is "No kidding,
interdimensional demons are sucking my brain out with a straw right this
very instant and I am powerless to stop them", I'd say "Xtian theocracy in
America at the _Handmaid's Tale_ level" is about a 3 or 4 and "militant
Islamism fomenting a global culture war to impose global Sharia" is at
least a 6. Doesn't mean I have my eyes closed.
I do believe that I can have a much more direct influence in forestalling
or correcting an American Xtian theocracy than I can in forestalling any
other variety of theocracy that comes to mind.--
I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization.
Sometimes I forget. >>
I would rate a Theocracy occurring domestically, at level 2 at best. And the
enabling of a Global Caliphate under Sharia seems to be, yes, a 6 or 7. If
you believe Peter Gale at the University of Pennsylvania, Al Qeida has a fair
chance of knocking out the USA through simultaneous attacks on power lines,
and plants, and data centers and comm lines (data hot sites too!). Actually,
there is a greater chance of Islamic Radicalism costing millions more deaths,
then it is of eventually succeeding.
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