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[bigverne]

[rapier]

[bucheon bum]

I think at this juncture I'll point out some irony.

Rapier, and you can be free to correct me if I'm wrong on this, is one of many on this board who criticize (or at least observe) Koreans lack of critical thought. yet what do you know, the same could be said about him.

[On the other hand]

[bucheon bum]

[The Bobster]

[rapier]

The global expansion of Militant Islam is financed by Middle East oil wealth. In the U.S. oil means gasoline. Every time you fill your gas tank, some of the money will find its way into the hands of Islamic extremists who are planning the next terrorist attack.

Is there anyone who cannot see the connection between the flow of oil money into the Middle East and the flow of terrorism out of the Middle East?

"The rise of terrorism by militant Islam against the United States and the West coincided with the rise in oil prices of 1979-80 and the subsequent transfer of hundreds of billions of dollars from the West to Muslim countries." – Max Singer, senior fellow, The Hudson Institute.

To help understand the role of oil money in the global expansion of Islamic terrorism imagine what would happen if the Ku Klux Klan was given one hundred billion dollars to promote their vision of the world.

http://www.americanenergyindependence.com/

Oil is the engine of islamic growth. It not only finances terrorsim, but the building of schools, mosques and a host of islamic missions in the west. Some of the harshest muslim countries have their abuses of human rights overlooked by the international community because they have economic clout from controlling oil.
The oil boom gave Islamic nations political clout throughout the world because they controlled the majority of the oil reserves. "Oil wealth gave Muslims the power to raise or lower oil prices, to buy telephone systems from this company or helicopters fromthat country, to give aid or withhold it. . .[and] the west hardly reacted at all. This passivity heightened the perception among Muslims that a momentous shift in power had occured, and they were exhilirated by it.

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/islam.html

[bucheon bum]

ah, now you're refering to militant Islam. Don't think you'd find many- if any- who would object to the connection between oil in the M.East and the rise of power/influence of fundamentalist Muslims.

If only that is what you would have said originally.

[Bulsajo]