Comments on: Imperial Islam

By: lex

lex — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:41:00 +0000

Well, I think that’s certainly possible Zane, and you’re much closer to it than I am. But there are many Islamic countries, and since the fall of the Taliban, none are truly Shari’a governed.

Not even Saudi.

By: Zane

Zane — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:44:20 +0000

“Not all of the umma feel this way of course…”

CAPT L, far, far more of them feel this way than will ever let on. The reality is that those who truly want to get on in the world have no basis in Shari’a for restraining those who want to slit throats and kill infidels, rape their women and make them all subject peoples–which is what Shari’a commands them to do! To paraphrase John Paul Jones, we have not yet begun to fight. The difference between us and Admiral Jones, however, is that he knew who his enemy was.

By: CPT J

CPT J — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:08:59 +0000

Reese: exactly right.

Sci-fi novelist Dan Simmons calls it “The Century War”. Sounds better than GWOT to me. Imagine the world in 2106… Things are as they are because they were as they were.

The memory of Imperial Islam’s past glories gives them a head start. The younger adversary [that's US] has a lot of remedial history to catch up on.

By: Reese

Reese — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:12:36 +0000

Cpt J’s quote is from a story I read today via a recent link at Gerard Vanderleun’s americandigest.org. It’s an interesting sci-fi (I hope) take on the “long war” meme started five years or so ago (at least in my mind).

By: Chap

Chap — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:33:39 +0000

This month’s dead tree edition of The American Interest has an excellent article by Lewis on how the first edition came to be, and what he had to do to revise the book. It’s well worth a look; that issue is the first one I read and very good.

I’d send it to you but just put it into a box for a buddy on Pelelieu….

By: CPT J

CPT J — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:56:21 +0000

‘The Time Traveler laughed again, but with more edge this time. ?