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In reply to the discussion: U.S. declines to veto U.N. Security Council resolution for Israel to stop Jewish settlement activity [View all]LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)This is more like prognostication based on every shred of available evidence. Watching a Christian couple burned to death by a mob of 1000 Pakistanis. Having an elderly Coptic woman paraded naked through the streets of an Egyptian city. These are unthinkable to non-Sunni cultures.
Look at the borders of Sunni Islam. Malaysia, Indonesia, China and India are its general borders in the east. Conflict. South: Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, conflict and ethnic cleansing of non-Sunnis. North: Chechnya, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, conflict and ethnic cleansing. West: Germany/France/Belgium- formerly safe, now in conflict. Of course these aren't comprehensive, just the general borders of Sunni Islam.
I'm not a scholar, but I'm also not a fool. It doesn't take much thinking to see that Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Jews, atheists, Taoists, animists, Wiccans, and other sects of Islam like Ahmadiyya and Ibadi Islam, all have one thing in common: they don't get along with mainstream Sunni extremism.
I argue that we don't need a very good crystal ball to know what will happen to the Jews if they ever fall under the power of their neighbors. Saying all that, does it justify settlements? No. I wouldn't argue that.