24-04-2003 16:30									#1
	Proposal to form Islamic defense alliance like Nato Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

http://www.irna.com/en/head/030419171754.ehe.shtml
Brussels, April 19, IRNA -- A Belgian-based Muslim human rights
activist has launched an initiative with the aim of forming an
Islamic defence alliance on the lines of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation (NATO) to defend Muslim countries from attacks by foreign
powers.
Faisal Khan, chairman of the World Peace Mission and an observer
in the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), told IRNA that he has
proposed the alliance to be named ''Mecca Alliance Treaty Organisation
(M.A.T.O).''
Khan, who is based in the Belgian port city of Antwerp, told IRNA
by phone that he is in contact with several Muslim countries for
discussion of his initiative.
Under the proposed treaty, any aggression against any MATO member
would be considered as an attack on all its members.
Khan, who hails from Pakistan, said the treaty would be signed in
Mecca and its head office located in Mecca.
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This is an interesting turn of events, but the logical response to the invasion of Iraq. If this were to form, things could suddenly become very difficult for America. I don't think that this attempt in particular will suceed, but I am sure that, over the next couple years we will begin to see a United Arabia, or perhaps even a MATO as this article describes.

	24-04-2003 16:34									#2
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Ooh, this is going to be fun. I wonder when they'll give us the opportunity to defeat them again.

	24-04-2003 16:37									#3
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I think this will annoy India more than America.

	24-04-2003 16:40									#4
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Certainly that's something to think about, though inclusion of all Islamic countries might be too wide a scope, since that would include Malaysia and Indonesia, quite a distance from the rest of them.

	24-04-2003 16:49									#5
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MATO? They're planning to call themselves MATO?

(In Finnish, mato means a worm.)

	24-04-2003 16:49									#6
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I can't ever seeing this getting off the ground, there are just too many conflicting interests in the Muslim World e.g. Sunni and Shi'ite. Besides, I'm getting more and more suspicious that the Arabs are just using Islam to fool other Muslim countries into fighting for them in order to further their own nationalist interests.

	24-04-2003 16:50									#7
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This would cause a very interesting 'us vs them' scenario if NATO wasn't about to collapse.

	24-04-2003 16:54									#8
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Seriously, though, I thought the world's already got rid of one Warsaw Pact.

	24-04-2003 17:33									#9
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Some of the muslim nations hate each other just as much if not more than they hate the The Zionist Republica a.k.a USA. They'll get along together like a house on fire.

	24-04-2003 17:56									#10
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I wonder what the guidelines to entrance will be:
-GDP per capita lower than 7k USD,
-crappy army.
-corrupt government.
-lack of democracy.
-harbouring at least two widely known terrorist organizations.



silly ass idea. The creation may transcend the sum of its' parts, but in case of muslim states, that doesn't say much.

	24-04-2003 18:10									#11
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They´ll start throwing rotten toMATOes at Israel then

	24-04-2003 18:12									#12
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I think they better use them for food, with all the exploding population outstripping resources, etc.

	24-04-2003 18:27									#13
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Damn. When I opened this thread I thought the idea was actually coming from a serious source (like an actual country) rather than some random kook?

	24-04-2003 18:30									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel I wonder what the guidelines to entrance will be: -GDP per capita lower than 7k USD, -crappy army. -corrupt government. -lack of democracy. -harbouring at least two widely known terrorist organizations.

Wow...Isreal's already 3/5 of the way there

	24-04-2003 18:33									#15
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Only 2/5, and that's stretching it.

	24-04-2003 19:08									#16
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I'd say around 1, in total. But we can always expect.

nice try at a shot, though.

	24-04-2003 19:11									#17
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so they want to politically formalize the jihad?

someone please clarify the difference between Muslim and Islam. i thought i had it down until all these blacks started talking about the nation of Islam.

	24-04-2003 19:14									#18
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what makes anyone think they would really back each other up??? the US would just say (like today), shut up Iran or else!! so much for that.

	24-04-2003 19:17									#19
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quote: Originally posted by My Wife Hates CIV what makes anyone think they would really back each other up??? the US would just say (like today), shut up Iran or else!! so much for that.

maybe the point of the alliance would be to gather nuclear materials, and just threaten to give it to terrorists.

	24-04-2003 19:33									#20
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	24-04-2003 19:48									#21
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quote: Originally posted by UberKruX maybe the point of the alliance would be to gather nuclear materials, and just threaten to give it to terrorists.

and how would this be different from today???

	24-04-2003 20:17									#22
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*cough* 1967 *cough*....