And it will continue to get worse.....

Submitted by pdm (United States), May 18, 2009 at 09:39

because islam and the midde east are closed societies. Without outside ideas to temper its ideology, islam and the warlords 'concentrate' their ideas and pull people closer to the 'ideal' islam and enhance and widen their influence: the culture falls deeper into tyranny (think brownshirts, SS, gestapo, NAZI Germany).

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