Re: God Squads, was Re: IR*Q: Predictable catastrophes of human stupidity

From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 14:00:05 MDT

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    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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