War on Islam , war on China

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Jul 15, 2008 at 03:55

Hi, Singha!

Thanks for your valuable thoughts.

>Dr. Pipes himself seems to be trying to be politically right by using a non existent construct called islamism.< I fully share your impression. >eftist congress and communists are supported by muslims and are unlikely to be reliable partners in the war on islam.< I am afraid that if a war on Islam breaks out one day , Dr. Pipes will fight on Islam's side.

> Outside, china has strategic links with muslim nations ranging from the Sudan, darfur regime to the islamic generals in pakistan. It has used them to further its interests.<

How true! But it is exactly what the US is doing with its Saudi and Pakistani "friends" and "allies", isn't it?

>China's stakes in the war on islam are small except to the extent of tying the west up in a long war while using this time to modernise its economy further and copy technology from the west. China will fight islam and that too in a limited way only if muslims ally with the west to split china up in east turkistan.<

In other words - if the US-Islam alliance turns out to be more profitable to Moslems than the China-Islam alliance. >There have been accusations that China enabled pakistan based terrorists to take on West so that the afghan mujahaddins did not start creating problems for them in the neighboring east turkistan (chinese province).<

As far as I know the vicissitudes of history, one day also the hardest mujahedins may recall that after all it was the US that gave them weapons to beat the infidel Soviets with...

>West faces two challenges: One, challenge from islam which while diffuse is quite potent and another from totalitarian china which remains a long term threat on account of its well camoflaged intent to dominate Asia and the world.<

In my opinion the US is conducting a sucidal policy by not declaring straighforward war on Islam and estranging potential allies in such a war and - what is more sinister - it is pretending to be a friend of Islam. The Americans are fighting an imaginary enemy call "Islamism" while giving the real enemy called Islam all the possibilities to play all the enemies of Islam against each other and thus win in the last round. The US is bent on curtailing China's expension. Not having even won the war on terror and not realizing that what is at stake is Islam's supremacy the US will probably be engaged in war on China in a (few) decade(s). Well, fighting wrong enemies has always helped the right enemies to get what they wanted. And in this case it is the downfall of America that the Moslems want.

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