only one way to defeat islamism

Submitted by y Brandstetter MD (Israel), Dec 4, 2010 at 16:19

And that is to take away its financing. Islamism has one major source of income, one one way to assure the continuation of that income: the ICE engine. Once you make the Internal Combustion Engine redundant, oil revenue will disappear along with the need to maintain the flow of oil, and the undue respect Islam and islamism commands will disappear. Predictably the sympathy for islamic grievances and the fear of islamic reprisals (that is, an oil flow arrest) will sharply decline, further improving the ability to fight Islamism succesfully.

Now if you want to know how to make the ICE engine redundant, that I can tell you

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