As the coordinator for an online think tank, I am often amazed by what is going on in the geopolitical world. For instance, there was a special TV program on Islam on CNN. It talked about God's Warriors and "The Brotherhood" in Egypt, which believes that Islam is the solution to save the world and that all people of the world should convert to Islam or leave this world. They use these religious statements to gather up a huge political base that supports them, although the group is mostly moderate in its leadership.
Of course, Osama bin Laden's second in command was a member of this group; "The Brotherhood". Is Islam really the way to save the world? Many Christians believe that Christianity is the way to save the world and if everyone was a Christian there wouldn't be any problems in the world and all.
Perhaps you can see the huge problem with the culture clash in the war of religions. Especially with religious groups such as God's Warriors, The Brotherhood or Jihadists. Indeed, in reality the Christian religion has a very similar groups, although not as bold and there are many Christian world wide missionary groups calling themselves Christian soldiers.
The answer to, or rather the solution to save the world is certainly not religion; it is not Islam and it is not Christianity. Perhaps the solution to save the world is to get rid of all world religions, and for mankind to join together in a common cause; the cause of liberty, freedom, and democracy.
The solution to save the world should never be to convert everyone in the world against their will to a specific religion. If a group trying to attempt this, then that group is violating people's personal freedoms and liberty. Quite frankly, there's been enough of that in the world and therein lies the problem. Something to contemplate in 2008.
