Implications of pre-mature withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq on European Islamization
Reader comment on item: Europe's Stark Options

Submitted by Dallas (United States), Mar 31, 2007 at 18:13

The outcome of the War in Iraq may affect European Islamization. If U.S forces prematurely withdraw from Iraq, it could create an opportunity or Iran or some other Islamist nation to Create a Regional Islamist Empire . The existence of a unified Islamist empire in the Middle East would intervene in European affairs much more effectively than a series of separate Arab nations with divergent interests. Such intervention could include political use of oil monopoly, terrorism and Islamist propaganda.

The existence of a regional Islamist empire could tilt the balance in a European Islamist civil war towards Islamists or encourage Europeans to give up the battle. My conclusion is that Europe will fall to Islamism. If this happens, what remain of the free world will face a much more serious Islamist threat than currently exists.

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