On 2 Aug 2002 at 14:09, Ben wrote:
> [Joe]
> That is a time-honored solution for the religion; twenty-two out of
> twenty-four global conflicts presently happening on the globe have, as
> their participants on one or both sides, Islamic regimes. And guess
> why? Because the religion is a fascist, world-conquering one, began
> by a murderous mercernary.
>
> [ben]
> I'd be very interested in having the data from which this calculation
> was made. I wonder how many of the 24 have Christians/Jews/etc on one
> side. Then we could divide by global percentage populations, and
> probably find that [assumption] per capita, all religions kill about
> equally [/assumption].
>
> -ben
>
Read "THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS" by Samuel P. Huntingdon,
particularly pages 254-258 (Islam's Bloody Borders). Some
statements:
"Muslims make up about one fifth of the world's population but in the
1990's they have been far more involved in intergroup violence than the
people of any other civilization. The evidence is overwhelming." (p.
256)
"Islam's borders are bloody, and so are its innards." (p. 258)
"no single statement in my FOREIGN AFFAIRS article attracted more
comment than 'Islam has bloody borders'. I made that judgment on the
basis of a casual survey of intercivilizational conflicts. Quantitative
evidence from every disinterested source conclusively demonstrates its
validity." (p. 258, footnote).
His sources are as follows:
1) Ted Robert Gurr, "People Against States: Ethnopolitical Conflict and
the Changing World System" INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
QUARTERLY, Vol. 38 (September 1994) pp. 347-378
2) New York Times, February 7, 1993, pages 1 and 14
3) James L. Payne, WHY NATIONS ARM (Oxford, Basil Blackwell,
1989), pp. 125, 138-139.
4) Ruth Leger Sivard, New York Times, 6 July 1993, p. A1, A6; Time, 10
February 1992, pp. 16ff.; Economist, 17 February 1990, pp. 21-24,
Boston Globe, 25 November 1991, pp. 1, 8,; Dan Oberdorfer,
Washington Post, 1 march 1992, p. A1.
In the intervening few years, those borders and innards have, under
increased Wahhabist influence, more bloody, not less.
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