Message from Mali: Keep Fracking, America!

[Geee]

PJMedia:

Recent events in Mali and Libya, not to mention Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, Bengla Desh, Somalia, and several other pleasure spots remind us — if such a reminder were necessary — that the Islamic world is, to put it mildly, not a fun place to be. According to religionofpeace.com, Islamic terrorists have accounted for 20,261 deadly terror attacks since 9/11. Just this random Thursday, January 17, the website reports the following:

2013.01.17 (Hillah, Iraq) - al-Qaeda detonate a car bomb outside a soccer stadium in a Shia neighborhood, killing at least seven.

2013.01.17 (Dujail, Iraq) - Eleven Shia pilgrims are sent to Allah by dedicated Sunni car bombers.

2013.01.17 (Garissa, Kenya) - Religious extremists burst into a restaurant and gun down five patrons.

2013.01.17 (Narathiwat, Thailand) - Islamic ‘insurgents’ murder a school truck driver in front of seven children.

2013.01.17 (Pattani, Thailand) - A 78-year-old farmer is shot to death in a bath tub by Muslim terrorists.

2013.01.16 (Idlib, Syria) - al-Nusra suicide bombers massacre two dozen Syrians in an urban area.

Now it’s undeniable that back in the twentieth century, Germany, the Soviet Union and China were yet bigger killing machines, but in our time the Islamic world is the problem.

 

Some say the reasons for this are complex, but I think they’re relatively simple — the mix of plentiful oil and the Islamic religion provides a lethal cocktail. Oil makes it economically unnecessary for that backward region to advance into the modern world and Islam gives it an ideological excuse for not advancing. (Yes, I know some of those countries have no oil, but they were supported, or at least propped up, by those that did.) So a giant portion of our globe — from North Africa into the Horn of Africa, up through the Arab world and into Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan — remains a largely Islamic tribal culture, contributing almost nothing to civilization while continually threatening to destroy it.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

Something Newt said during the primaries....(I paraphrase) "we become energy independent, and Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, we can say to the rest of the world...You have an energy problem, we're in good shape."