A slow route to China

The map shows the Islamic world in light grey. It borders some of the hottest real-estate on earth. Russia is to the North, Europe to the North-West, China and India to the East.

When the bible predicted a war of nations (Armageddon) in the middle east, it rightly anticipated that the region would represent a global majority, at over 3 billion inhabitants.

What most have in common is land constraints, high demands for oil and food, increasingly restless populations and a shared protaganist, the US. This is a powder keg and the fuse now runs from China to the gates of Israel. It would take a political spark for the region to explode.

Whilst the current focus of the world is on the growing romance between Russia and her very demanding, single-minded Iranian side-kick, the stage is set for a meltdown involving the vast masses that live in the region and account for the majority of the earth's population.

Map source: http://graphicmaps.com/webimage/countrys/me.htm