[extropy-chat] Islamic fundamentalism in USA

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Patrick Wilken <Patrick.Wilken at Nat.Uni-Magdeburg.DE> wrote:

> As a nice counter-point to Mike Lorrey's alarmist post about how bad 
> the Islamic situation in Europe is last week the LA Weekly published
> an interesting piece on increasing allure of fundamentalist Islam to
> white 
> and hispanic americans. The most interesting point is that these new 
> converts are much more fundamentalist in their beliefs (no western 
> music, movies etc) than than the vast majority of immigrants.

This is common. The Nation of Islam has had similar tendencies for
decades. I think it is interesting, though, to see what I believe is a
dovetailing of the luddite segment of the population with wahabbism, as
I predicted a year or two ago. Expect a Luddite Jihadist domestic
terror group to form.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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