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Submitted by john w mcginley (United States), Nov 2, 2013 at 13:11

Christianity and Islam share a similar patrimony: World Dominion. For about a half-millennium or so, Christianity has radically titrated down its aspirations in this vein. Will It happen to Islam? There are two faces to Islam: those who peacefully wish to bring Islam to the whole world but without force, constraint, and military conquest; the other face of Islam actually thinks it is God's Will ((Allah's Will)) to bring the whole world under the banner of of Islam by force of arms. It reminds me of the Papal "marching orders" at the time of the Crusades: DEUS VULT. Thank-God that Christianity no longer aspires such military "victories" to validate Its perception of the greatness of Christianity. I sense that in the long run the peacefully-oriented Muslims will prevail over the adolescent aspriations of militant Islam. But in the meantime vigilance must remain the order of the day for some time to come. In this vein I kinda like what I sense is the Jewish take on this: Just let us be Jews, with most of us living in our ancestral Homeland. If you sincerely want to take on the burden of being Jewish, that's fine. Be we are not going to proseltyze (we made that mistake in the Hasmonean Period before there even was a Christianity).

As for Egypt: I believe that the Military in Egypt must put strong and uncompromising limits on the Muslim Brotherhood. Absent such a program then the minority will end up governing the majority. Egypt is lucky that it has a strong and independent Military. Democracy -- where and when it can function as such -- is a wonderful ideal and for various lengths of time it can be sustained. But Tyranny is the worst possible outcome. Sometimes Tyranny comes forth AS "The Military." That is not the usual situation and it is certainly not the situation in Egypt.

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Mohamed Elibiary resigned from DHS! [44 words]dhimmi no moreSep 9, 2014 08:31217693
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1The draft of the new constitution of Egypt [35 words]dhimmi no moreDec 8, 2013 11:51212060
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2Georgetown University is inviting an Egyptian Nazi to a forum about Egypt! Not I'm not kidding! [207 words]dhimmi no moreNov 20, 2013 10:36211617
2More disasters in regard to the "Struggle for democracy in Egypt" conference at Georgetown University [130 words]dhimmi no moreNov 21, 2013 07:41211617
2Samuel Tadros and the Georgetown University affair! [41 words]dhimmi no moreNov 21, 2013 07:53211617
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Where this could be headed [19 words]David W. LincolnNov 3, 2013 15:56211182
my view [6 words]Doug Schulek-MillerNov 3, 2013 13:50211180
3Are you listening, Obama? [109 words]SusanNov 3, 2013 12:07211179
1Takferee an old word with a new twist [419 words]dhimmi no moreNov 3, 2013 10:39211177
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Military crackdown no solution 2 [154 words]Lars NielsenNov 9, 2013 04:03211135
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1How on earth can I support it while distancing myself from its tactics? [17 words]
w/response from Daniel Pipes
Abu NudnikNov 1, 2013 21:49211126
Don't pain them! [8 words]_PermReaderNov 6, 2013 11:42211126
6Is the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood different from the WWII Nazies and forced Nazification of citizens? [389 words]David MacKAYNov 1, 2013 20:49211125
1Islamism and Naziism are two entirely different things [217 words]PrashantNov 5, 2013 02:25211125
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2PSYCHOPATHY [60 words]SunshineNov 1, 2013 20:38211123
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