Proposal to form Islamic defense alliance like Nato

[monkspider]

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.

[Eli]

Ooh, this is going to be fun. I wonder when they'll give us the opportunity to defeat them again.

[Dauphin]

Pakistan

I think this will annoy India more than America.

[Urban Ranger]

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.

[Stefu]

MATO? They're planning to call themselves MATO?

(In Finnish, mato means a worm.)

[our_man]

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.

[red_jon]

This would cause a very interesting 'us vs them' scenario if NATO wasn't about to collapse.

[Stefu]

Seriously, though, I thought the world's already got rid of one Warsaw Pact.

[Alvaro]

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.

[Az]

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.

[BeBMan]

They´ll start throwing rotten toMATOes at Israel then

[Az]

I think they better use them for food, with all the exploding population outstripping resources, etc.

[DinoDoc]

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?

[The Emperor Fabulous]

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

[DinoDoc]

Only 2/5, and that's stretching it.