11-Sep-11 News --Muslims and Westerners are far apart

[John]

11-Sep-11 News -- Ten years after 9/11, Muslims and Westerners are far apart


Al-Qaeda linked terrorists threaten both Muslims and non-Muslims

** 11-Sep-11 News -- Ten years after 9/11, Muslims and Westerners are far apart
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi ... b#e110911b


** 11-Sep-11 World View -- Political crises in Turkey, Egypt and Israel
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi ... 11#e110911


Egypt's government in crisis after storming of Israel's embassy


Contents:
Ten years after 9/11, Muslims and Westerners are far apart
### World View - Political crises in Turkey, Egypt and Israel
Netanyahu pledges allegiance to treaty with Egypt
Avigdor Lieberman threatens to aid Turkey's PKK terrorists
Turkey's Erdogan forced to soften military threat to Israel
Egypt's government in crisis after storming of Israel's embassy
China: Chaos in North Korea over rise of Kim Jong-un
Uyghur Unrest in Xinjiang shakes relations between China and Pakistan

Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Pew Research Center, al-Qaeda,
Salafists, Iran

Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Turkey, Egypt,
Avigdor Lieberman, Kurdistan Workers' Party, PKK,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, Hosni Mubarak,
Essam Sharaf, Osama Heika, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un,
Liu Ming, Uyghurs, Masood Khan, Xinjian, Kashgar, Hotan,
Pakistan

[Austin]

You rightly state that 99% of muslims probably don't want to stir up any clash, but I do remind you and others that it only takes a handful of individuals to turn a country around. Two notable examples: Nazi (goebbels, hitler, himler, hess) and Khmer Rouge (pol pot, brother#2 chea, samphan, sary and thirith). Sure there must be more but these stand out. With the right amount of fanaticism and rhetoric, the sky is the limit, both which any/all extremists have plenty of. There just needs to be the right trigger (or "left" based on their political persuasion ). The tea party nor any other in US has the right stuff to perform any change. Something new needs to come along before US policy internal and abroad changes its stripes/spots. The status quo will remain and economy will nose dive while military with its ever increasing monetary supply fights its way out, either abroad or internal against its own citizens. I wonder who will become the yellow-starred scapegoats within US ranks that the public will scorn as the German public did to the Jewish believers in the 1930's?? I would hazard a guess it will not be muslims nor any foreigners but will instead be the evangelicals. We will see.

[OLD1953]

Austin, I too sense a slow change pushing against the evangelicals. The content of mentions of those groups has slowly been turning more and more negative. Hardly surprising, IMHO, as their originators were all baby boomers, and the negative content of mentions of baby boomers has gone through the roof, especially if targeted to younger audiences. A backlash against religion may well come about due to our long struggle against religious based opposition, just as nobody would have a Japanese anything in their house or buy a Japanese car prior to about 1965/1970.

It has been interesting watching the politics of Iraq move about in response to recent issues. As I'd put it, the last crisis generation (from the 80's) got up and said "NO" when the politically expedient thing was to let the US leave completely. These people do NOT trust Iran to "play nice" in Iraq, the memory of the last war is too strong, so they won't permit any Iranian takeover of Iraq, and they see a US presence as a deterrent to any such event. Therefore, they prefer the US to stay. (It's worthy of note that the primary impulse behind the US leaving on this side of the ocean is a Shia mullah named Al Sadr, who hasn't set foot in Iraq in years, he's "studying" in Iran. Replace that with US and Japanese equivalents on a similar timeline and you can understand the anger that brewed up over a US departure.)