How to deal with the Third Wave

Submitted by Wallace Edward Brand (United States), Apr 21, 2008 at 15:09

I have been asked by Mariana for my recommendation on how best to prevent the success of the third wave of Islamic Imperialism.

I defer to Daniel Pipes on how best to deal with the Third Wave. However my own view is to convert our transportation system to hydrogen as quickly as possible with fuel cells. In transition, let us use plug-in hybrid cars so that we can rely on coal, or nuclear energy for the greater part of our transportation energy needs.

With the exception of oil, the economies of these Muslim countries are not very robust to my understanding. We must cut off the supply of petrodollars which is financing the third wave. We must also stop the drug trade and illegal arms transactions which are also sources of financing. My take from Rachel Ehrenfeld's book on "Financing Evil" is that although the individual operations such as 9/11 does not cost very much, the terrorists need a large steady income to support their overhead costs.

Deprive them of the financing and their structure will, over time, wither away. But in the interim there are all those Muslims that have been soaked in 7th Century Islam that have to be dealt with.

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