Reply to Romesh Chander

Submitted by Syed Kasim (Canada), Dec 27, 2006 at 00:39

Reply to Romesh Chander

Romesh Chander: Stop all immigration from muslim countries, limit trade to muslim countries to necessities and nothing else, stop all movement of money to muslim countries.

Syed Kasim: They have already been done in the past and they are still being done except the immigration stuff. The debt-ridden West has to respond to the economic pressure from China and India. For eg. the legally entitled Iran(NPT member) is denied the peaceful nuclear technology at the same time India(non-NPT member with nuclear weapons) is given the same technology illegally. For such response, the West needs immigrants who are economically viable to promote the economies of the West not just to balance the population. So, the west has to depend on the economically viable Muslims from the world, not the poor population from South Africa or South America. I would like to inform that the net GDP (gross GDP - external debt = 22.5 trillion) of the top 10 economies of the East is 130 times larger than the net GDP(gross GDP - external debt = 0.15 trillion)) of the top 10 economies of the West.

Romesh's ideas will only lead to the earlier demise of the West. These measures won't even win the hearts and minds of the people from the West.

Romesh Chander: Don't give democratic privileges to lawful islamism.

Syed Kasim: This measure was already done. Wherever democracy is accepted by muslims, the successful muslim leaders are not accepted by the west - Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Algeria, etc. But whoever friendlier to the west are dictators - Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, etc. But still those friendly nations did not get the peaceful nuclear technologies. The day they ask for the same they will also become un-friendly nations. Denial of democracy was already done. The effect of the same was the creation of alqaedans in friendly Muslim countries of the West. We can't rely on the same tactic anymore. So, the moderate islmists have only to be promoted. Otherwise the denial of democracy anymore will only push the Muslim world to the control of alqaedans.

Syed Kasim

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