There seems to be a warped perception of the place of Islam in Europe. I wouldn’t bet on that prediction coming true. Call it an insider tip if you like.
No doubt. However my old pastor suspected there might at some stage be something like a Middle Eastern oil embargo. My understanding is that apart from Russia, Norway and Britain, there’s not much oil in Europe. The price of oil supply might just be acceptance of Islam. That’s why he said he thought it wouldn’t be very sincere.
Combine an oil embarge with the current European debt crisis, and a European winter, and what would you have? He did make a comment, “Suppose you get a Arab statesman, who does a bit of fence building with his mates (at the time he used Yassir Arafat as a sort of model, but obviously it won’t be him). Then they deliver an ultimatum to the West. ‘Right boys, either you get Israel out of there, or we turn off the taps (oil).’ We’d all be broke in a week.”
I’ve seen nothing in the recent “Arab Spring” to see that they’re going to modulate Islam. If anything it was the Western supported dictators who kept the lid on the pot to some extent. In fact, they seem even more intent than ever that Islam will remain the dominant religion. There have been several church massacres since then, with new regimes promising Islam will have a dominant role.
In such a scenario, one might say the Europeans could then try to invade the Middle East and forcibly take some oil wells. But they might find they have new found enemies in Russia, China, Japan, India and the USA in that case. The rest of the industrialised world wouldn’t just sit on its hands.
As I said, I found the old pastor was very accurate. Whether he will prove to be right in this case or not remains to be seen.
That’s something along the lines of what I think may happen. If I didn’t have personal experience of the old pastor’s prophetic accuracy, I wouldn’t say it.
We’ll see.
