RE: Do you think Muslims will dominate the world again like they used before?
December 21, 2016 at 12:52 pm
I think that the extremist factions have too little unity and far too little support among the general Muslim population to ever dominate the world. I think that as mainstream media works its way into the lives of people under fanatical rule it becomes much harder to keep them in line. Most Muslims are adamant that their religion is peaceful, and given the opportunity to observe it away from the bloodthirsty extremists they will continue to spread the idea that it is peaceful. They do not have the numbers and the ideological support to dominate the world. The best they can do, IMO, is what they're doing now-- oppressing a few nations by controlling the government (whole or in part) and carrying out deadly attacks that will only hurt their cause in the long run.
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