relax - Rome was just one other fantasy from the Islamist's febrile mind.

Submitted by the Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan (Australia), Jul 2, 2010 at 18:38

Jassem, writing from Poland (yet hating the Poles??) writes:

"The Islamic supremacists deeply believing reconquering for Islam every piece of land that was ever conquered by Muslims where Mohammed was preaching the Moslems they someday will conquer Rome as Constantinople was conquered previously by Moslems. "

Undoubtedly their methods and motivations are sinister and serious. However - step back a bit and take a look. The best they can do really is wage a guerilla style terrorist war from within a society - similarly to what the Taliban now do in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Increasingly dramatic events would occur before they even got anywhere near the stage where they could organise to take over a city of nearly 3 million people , most of whom despise Islam with a vengeance anyway. That would lead to the introduction of mass deportations for any muslim who showed signs of being involved in conspiracies against the state. And if an Islamic 'army' were ever to attempt to take Rome, the capital of Italy - a member of the EU - then they would have to face the combined military forces of the EU and NATO. Organising an army capable of doing so is next to impossible. They can barely organise a piss-up in a pub as it is - always getting European experts in for them to do anything.

If there ever was an attempt at a military takeover of Rome by any sort of Islamic military group - then this would involve the threat to themselves and their originating countries (in the worst case) of a nuclear (and probably biological) strike from Britain, France and the US. I have no doubt that if things ever got to that stage, Orthodox Russia would most probably join in too - having had a gutfull of the Islamic supremacy fantasy in their own territory. The only thing that would stop such a revenge would be politicians - but they'd have no argument convincing enough, to stifle the demand for revenge from European people.

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