FEAR OF ISLAM

There is a sense of Islamophobia sweeping the world with the military action of Islamic State, Taliban and Al Qaeda. The view is that IS has not been defeated but moving into a new sophisticated phase of warfare.

The Taliban is moving to take Afghanistan now that the US is moving out. There are to be talks with the US just as the North Vietnamese held talks before  moving into South Vietnam. The Taliban regards the Afghan Government as a puppet regime.

Countries are fearing the presence of a Moslem community in their borders. There was the massacre of Moslems in Bosnia. Myanmar has moved to deny citizenship to the Moslem Rohingya minority.

Russia fought the Chechen rebels some years ago. China has taken control of the Uighurs for fear of a Moslem caliphate being set up in the Middle East that will attack China. India is denying citizenship to Moslems.

Western nations have accepted Moslem refugees. Let us hope that these countries are not foisted on their own petard. There may be pressure from extremists to demand loyalty of the moderate Moslems in the western world.

The western world has feared Islam since the days of the Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan who invaded Istanbul and turned to Islam. These Mongols set up the largest empire the world has ever seen. Then it crumbled.

I am not one to accept prophesies but the predictions of Nostradamus on the History Channel state that the world will end in 2060 after the Israelis build a new temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. 

That sounds to be too true if the Israelis should ever do that. The fury of the Moslems would rise to crescendo. There is no possible sharing of a holy site.