EIN News says, "After Clashes in Iran, Protests in Yemen and Bahrain A day after riot police in Iran beat demonstrators and fired tear gas to contain the most significant street protests since the end of the 2009 uprising there, confrontation with the authorities continued to unfold in the region on Tuesday as protesters clashed with security forces in Bahrain and Yemen. (nytimes.com)".
With respect to these various uprisings, let's not concentrate only on the apparent opportunity for the extension of freedom, which is of significant importance to Americans. We must also look at whether each of these uprisings is a gain in Muslim power. Collective increase in Muslim power in the Arabic states will lead to attacks on Israel, with the associated problem of what the US will do to support its ally.
The ultimate objective of Islam and its Muslim followers is to convert all people, including Jews and Christians, to Islam or to kill them. This is the potential jihad, which we would like to avoid by maintaining Muslims in a position of minimal political power, whereby we have to deal only with the occasional terrorists. The alternative is to prepare ourselves for extensive bloodshed
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