Do you think fanatical Islam is the #1 threat to the world?

Answer 1

1. Human irrationality.
2. Human ignorance.
3. Fanatical Islam.
4. Fanatical Christianity.

If you eliminate 1 & 2, it will also eliminate 3 & 4.

Answer 2

No. Fanatics of all sorts, whether Muslim or Christians, are a threat to the world.
Looking at the world history since 1945 there is only one country that has been the greatest threat to the world, the United States. I has violated international laws and treaties since Truman took power following Roosevelts' death, starting with the Pottstam Agreement over Korea and Germany, been involved in the 1st Indochina War (France verses Viet Nationalists [Viet Minh]), Violating the 1954 Geneva Agreement on Vietnam which led to the 2nd Indochina War (the Vietnam War), the involvement in coups and attempted coups throughout the world against democratically elected governments, the invasions of Grenada and Panama plus the invasion of Iraq (the 2nd Gulf War) which was against the UN charter and international law. There are plenty of other cases which can be added, but they are the most prominent.
The US passed laws so that no US citizen can be prosecuted by the International War Crimes Tribunal, yet all the presidents from Truman to the current incumbent are/could be tried for such crimes along with many of the senior people in their administrations.

Answer 3

No. At the moment I'd say the fanatical fundie in the White House is the #1 threat. A lot of the world would agree.

Answer 4

I do. But if it doesn't destroy civilization as Islamist fundamentalism wishes to do, I expect to eventually see it superceded by a return of ecoterrorism to the fore and a resurgence of people's revolutions driven by the acceleration of wealth disparity, which is approaching that of the feudal period when the average US hourly worker doesn't make $16.53 an hour, but the average US CEO pay crossed $5000 an hour in 2001 and has since accelerated.

Consider some of what we've seen the past several years: CEOs are now compensated for selling off the company (happening at my company right now), for leaving quietly, or for gross performance failure. Thus Carly Fiorina, failed CEO of Hewlett-Packard, departed with a package of more than $40 million. David Pottruck of Schwab left with around $50 million, and Craig Conway of Peoplesoft exited with a total package of more than $60 million. Phillip Purcell of Morgan Stanley, left with $113 million, and James Kilts of Gillette who walked out with $165 million. Steven Crawford, co-president of Morgan Stanley only three months got $32 million—or a rate of pay of more than $10 million a month. Daniel Carp, CEO of Blockbuster Video Corp., in 2004 received more than $50 million in compensation even though the company recorded a loss of $1.25 billion that year.

I think eventually the economic backslide of the labor force in comparison to the obscene runup in executive wealth will prompt revolution that will make Islamist terror look like the good old days as insurgents confront corporate mercenaries for hire like Blackwater in class warfare on a scale never imagined. But I'm upbeat. At my age I expect to die without health insurance and affordable medication or drown in my lowland home as global warming melts the icecaps before the real shite hits the fan.

Answer 5

YES!
In the last 100 years I have not heard of anyone killing in the name of their God but Islam. I know not all Islamics feel this way. But there is a move for even moderate Muslims to join the jihad.
Here is an interesting Muslim Dr who confronts the Islamic extremest, very interesting.
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Answer 6

No. The no. 1 threat will be fanatical and trigger-happy White House.

Answer 7

No, the terrorists who represent themselves as radical Islamists are just a tool of the world's greatest threat: the New World Order, the megalomaniacs who intend to rule the world. These people used Communism for over seventy years, as well as Hitler. They produce a threat (currently, the primary threat is terrorism), and use it to enslave us all (for example: the USA PATRIOT Act).

Other "threats" are Global Warming" the "hole" in the ozone layer, and of course, Y2K. When we believe the threat, we are supposed to surrender more of our freedoms to them, in exchange for the security they provide us.

Answer 8

Fanatical anything is a threat. but it is a beast that needs to be fed. Fanatacism thrives on violent opposition.

Answer 9

Yes, they have no qualms about killing noncombatants and their goal is instilling fear through death. Their objective is converting countries into Islamic States.

Answer 10

Yes