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Entry: The End of History? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_end_of_history#9034 Post contents: LaTulippe appears to be correct inasmuch as Islam lacks the capacity to independently develop the kind of modern industrial base necessary for global military conquest. But note that at the same time as saying that Islam will not conquer the world, he foresees its conquest of western Europe and possibly of the Orthodox world. So, his prediction is merely that Islam will not defeat and conquer the major powers of China, India, and the USA, nor, presumably, will it conquer US-protected Latin America. The problem with this analysis is that an Islamic Europe will not need to independently develop an advanced industrial civilisation - it will *inherit* an advanced industrial civilisation. And Islam will be politically dominant in Europe long before the majority of Europeans are Muslim. On current projections it's perfectly possible that the Islamic-dominated world ca 2050 will extend from Ireland east across Europe and most of Africa and Asia as far as India & China. The Americas will not be Islamic (though possibly north America will be as Latin as the south), but the world will look very different, and darker, than the one we know today. Sent at: 2008 07 23