60 Year Anniversary Of The Beginning Of The Rise of Radical Islam

[FaninAma]

Actually it was last month:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

Where does this thing end...Armageddon? Reformation of Islam? I don't see it going anywhere good unless we finally make the use of oil irrelevant negating the importance of the region. Even then I think the fuse has been lit for the showdown between Western cultures and those of Islam.

[diverdog]

Actually it was last month:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

Where does this thing end...Armageddon? Reformation of Islam? I don't see it going anywhere good unless we finally make the use of oil irrelevant negating the importance of the region. Even then I think the fuse has been lit for the showdown between Western cultures and those Islam.

I do not know if this was the cause of the rise of radical Islam or not. You could certainly make an argument that it was. I think we were far more worried about the communist back then and we probably did not think this through.

[SouthCarolinaSooner]

I do not know if this was the cause of the rise of radical Islam or not. You could certainly make an argument that it was. I think we were far more worried about the communist back then and we probably did not think this through.
It may have been the start of aggression targeted at Uncle Sam...maybe a better start date would be 1928, with Hassan al-Banna and the foundation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

[diverdog]

It may have been the start of aggression targeted at Uncle Sam...maybe a better start date would be 1928, with Hassan al-Banna and the foundation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

I think I mentioned this in another thread.

[cleller]

We should blow something up, then dance around and cackle like a bunch of lunatic eunuchs.

[cleller]

That was an interesting article about Iran. Some of the interesting backstory:

Ike was a favorite of Roosevelt and the New Dealers, who wanted him to run for president as a Democrat. Ike chose instead to run as a Republican to try nix the nomination of Robert Taft, the son of William Howard Taft. Robert Taft was an anti-interventionist, Ike feared his policies would benefit the Soviet Union, and wanted to stop him short. Very general-like thinking.
Taft's campaign manager was US Rep Howard Buffett, father of Warren Buffett. Ike then chose Nixon, who was more of a traditional conservative, and an anti-communist to balance the ticket.

[SoonerProphet]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Abd_al-Wahhab

[soonercruiser]

We should blow something up, then dance around and cackle like a bunch of lunatic eunuchs.

That would be Al Qaeda!
And, stone a woman to death for adultery while we're at it.
Talk about the only real "War on Women"!

[FaninAma]

So which is the more difficult technological task.....the discovery of the atomic bomb in the 1940's or the development of an affordable renewable energy source today?

I pose the question simply because when this country determines something is in their naional interest and a real priority they pour the resources into reaching that goal. Hence we beat Germany to the capability of detonating a nuclear weapon.

Shouldn't developing a renewable source of energy that is affordable be a high priority. We could even use natural gas as the bridge between oil dependency and independence.

[SouthCarolinaSooner]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_ibn_Abd_al-Wahhab
Hell lets throw in Ibn Taymiyyah too