Rise of the Islamists: 'We Are Standing At The Threshold of a New World'

With fears that Islamist extremists might come to power in Egypt, there are dire warnings coming out of Moscow. Yulia Latynina, a talk show host and columnist warns in The Moscow Times that a “New Iron Curtain” is descending on the globe.

“We are standing at the threshold of a new world. If the fundamentalists get their way, secular authoritarian Middle East regimes will be replaced by Islamist extremist, totalitarian ones. As a result, oil tanker ships will have to sail around Cape Horn, the West will have to urgently search for alternatives to oil as an energy source, Russia will lose the North Caucasus, and Israel will be wiped off the face of the Earth.

That is the price the Middle East would have to pay for its dictatorial governments that have exploited its citizens for decades. This is also the price the West would pay for its own “humanitarian” bureaucracy and the misguided campaign its nongovernmental organizations have waged for the last decade defending the rights of Muslim fundamentalists.”