I know this, about what you are trying to say about Muslims. However the two biggest sects Shiite and Sunni and many others sects do believe this. They may not be all religious but this religion whether they like it or not dominates every area of their lives, is this not true. Plus the ones who aren't religious aren't the ones radical enough to make things happen.
You also have to think how many Germans were actually Nazis, not that many, I pointed this out before, but the Nazis were the ones who were totally radical and would stop at nothing to take power.
Also you may not know this but a person who claimed to be the Mahdi appeard once before, in the Sudan area, all the Muslims flocked to him and he promptly started a war, who says it can't happen again. Plus with a "news" network like Al Jeegera they have over there that preaches hate against all things non-Muslim, they're only helping set the stage.
As far as the Europeans crushing them, maybe they can, if they can and have the will to do it then that's good, but Hilter thought the same of Russia. Like I said this area was the most powerful empire in the 15-16th century, even though the Europeans were technologically superior, they offset this with manpower, history has a tendency to repeat itself.
To put this in perspective, do you think the European Union can crush China? Maybe they can, maybe not, if they could it would be very difficult. This empire would have the power equal or most likely greater than that of China, with control of most of the worlds suplly of oil. Not only that, Europe has gotten itself in hole which it can't dig itself out of, namely having a good percentage of Muslims living in their soil, I'm sure this would affect any decission they make against this empire.
Chocobo_Blitzer said:
I also think as long as the US and allies bring some strong democratic states in middle-east, this little empire will never come.
I'd like to hope so, but I seriuosly believe that by doing this we have only bought ourselves time, a good 5 to 10 years, 20 or more if were lucky.
The only truly successful way to make this last is to have a strong secularly controlled military to enforce the democracy, this will take somewhat of a de-Islamizatin, but that's like taking the white out of rice. But even then who's to say that it won't fall to a popular uprising.
GuyontheRight said:
Could you tell me what books these visions are from? Revlations?, Isaiah?
Like I said before I compiled these from several sources, but if you want the strictly Biblical ones, here are the main ones, there are several scattered mentioning all over the Bible but these I believe are the main chapters.
Daniel Chapter 7 & 8.
Revelation Chapter 9 & 13.
Daniel 8 is probably the most detailed since it mentions the area specifically. Also note that Daniel predicts the rise of Alexander (Greece) by defeating Medo-Persia hundreds of years before this happens, and later predicts trouble coming form the same area.