Mohmar Deathstrike said:
You have no idea how fractured the 'Muslim World' is. There is not going to be an 'Islamic Empire' for the next 50 years.
I have alot better idea than you.
Like I said do you remember what happen some week ago about about how all Muslism both Sunni and Shiite got all riled up about a silly cartoon. The Mahdi prophecies are so much higher in the hiearcy of things Muslims that that bit about the cartoon.
The Muslim empire will happen in your lifetime, and their tanks will be rolling not too far from where you live.
Ollie Garchy said:
the religious division of Sunni & Shiite, like Catholic and Protestant, is a tough point to ignore. The ethnic diversity of the Muslim world is even far more complex. Kurds hate Turks, the Saudis hate Iran, etc. And then there is the pull and tug of political realities, regional political cleavages, confrontational economic policies, bizarre political splinter groups, etc.
But there is one thing that unites them all that is the Mahdi prophecies. This is one of the major thing they all have in common. They even believe it is this that will unite them from their many divisions.
Not to mention true core beliefs and psychology. Religious and political factional divisions, which is seen at the surface is seperate from this. If you were to study this in depth, as I have, you maybe surprised to what you will find
All it will take for this unity to happen is one charismatic madman, and a moderate amount core fanatic folowers (they already have alot of these). Didn't someone do just the same thing in you country some 60 years ago, ... his name was Adolph something... wasn't the country severely disunited, and didn't he appeal to the peoples true core beliefs and give them a common enemy in order to galvinize them, or something similar to this.
I only read the first few posts of this thread. Am I honestly to believe that anyone in their right mind would try to forecast global developments based on religious prophecy?
I suggest you read more before making uneducated comments. This isn't soley about religious prophecy.
Religious beliefs are a core problem in the Muslim world. If these people would discard their primitive belief structures
Please would you go over there kindly tell them that. It would make things alot easier. Maybe they wont act the way they did about the catoon, ...or maybe they'll just kill you. Good luck.
I hope you get what I'm saying here, if you think they are going to discard their religion just like that, perhaps you need to see things from a more realistic perspective.