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What are your views? Hopes? and Fears?
The Future of Egypt - Democracy or Islamic State?
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You omitted to mention any form of dictatorship, eg military. Unfortunately the west was keen to get rid of the dictators that kept radical Islam under control.
Hopes, none: fears a war exported round the globe.
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Hopes, none: fears a war exported round the globe.
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Unknown. The problem that I see is that the West, specifically the US, has failed to stand-up for the remaining Christians in the Middle East. Essentially, the US has practiced a type of appeasement that favors Islamist extremists. In a sense the West if performing "cultural suicide".
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Has the middle east islamic issue really been there since the re-instatement of Israel, or has the fundamentalist ideals been around long before then? ... ie Crusades...
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A complex question. Also, the use of the word "Crusades" points to a mistaken view point. Fostered by our (Western European based as opposed to Eastern European) educational system.
Islam has been aggressively expanding for centuries by occupying parts of Spain (for a while) and Eastern Europe. The Battle of Vienna in 1683 marked a "high point" in Islamic expansion. The West gradually began to recover Eastern Europe. The end of WWI, meant the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, but Western Europe essentially blew that opportunity to expand eastward. (Not to mention that the Greeks initiated an inopportune war that lost western Turkey and Constantinople.) Since then, the Islamists have been "encouraging" Christians and Jews to leave the Middle East through overt persecution. As the Christians and Jews have left, The Islamists have been left in control. They have even been supported by the Western nations in their intensified Islamification of the Middle East.
