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Originally Posted by scaeagles
The goal, clearly, is to overwhelm western culture with Islamic culture. This is just the beginning of an organized campaign.
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That may well be the goal of the extremists, but I don't think they speak for most of the immigrant populations, who want jobs, prosperity, and western style hedonism. They attract the disenfranchised, who will continue to lash out in horrendous ways - much like Timothy McViegh, the Unibomber, and other lunatic terrorsits of the west.
I heard an intersting comment today about the bombings in Jordan. One person characterized the reason the terrorists were more successful this time in carrying out their plans, was that their support and infrastructure had shrank, making them more insular and harder to detect.
Oh, and calling back Morigoon's comment about the French rulling on headscarves - I found it interesting to discover that Turkey has banned women from wearing headscarves in the public universities as they feel it conflicts with their being a secular society.
There is much brewing in this pot, Radical Islam is capitalizing on people's malaise and discontent, but I'm not sure that westernized Muslims will be willing to give up the spoils of modern living anymore than their Christian brethern have.