As the Arab world unravels, should the West be worried?

From our vantage point here in small town Western Canada, (Williams Lake with 20,000 or so people), we can very much appreciate the movie trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.  While we sit comfortably in our quite unassuming community where unemployment is low, people are spending money and life goes on as it has for years....we see parts of the world quite seemingly going to hell.  We can identify with little Frodo Baggins as he marched towards the all consuming evil of Sauron in the land of Mordor, all the while thinking of his beloved and untouched Shire.  He knew that if evil continued to rise, there would be no more Shire.

Evil is rising quickly in the world; that is undisputable. In fact Jesus warned his disciples that just prior to his second coming things would get as bad as it was in the day of Noah, pre-flood.  God could take it no longer and regretted that he had made man.  So he wiped the slate clean with the exception of Noah and his family.  Are we getting close to the tipping point again with God? 

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. Luke 17:26 NIV

The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.  So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.  Genesis 6:5-8 NIV

From the articles:

Leader after leader in the Arab world has been toppled by one of the most astonishing displays of sustained people power ever witnessed. It was all sparked by the so-called ­Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, where two weeks of spontaneous demon­strations last month resulted in the departure of President Ben Ali. But if revolution can spread from ­Tunisia to Egypt and then to Yemen in a fortnight, where might it take hold next? 

Democracy may bring change, but it could well also bring their worst nightmare - an Islamist crescent spreading from Pakistan in the East to Morocco in the West, a pan-Arabian commonwealth where suddenly the word Islamist is no longer shorthand for terrorist, but describes government policy.

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Now Egypt is in the throes of insurrection, and Algeria, Jordan, Morocco and Yemen are already targeted for revolutionary change. The richer and more tightly controlled Kingdoms of the Middle East will not be immune to challenges from their citizenry to break the chains of royal rule. 

But, as I had forecast in the Trends Journal, it is not solely the Middle East that is destined to experience episodes of violent upheaval. What is transpiring in the Arab world will spread throughout many European states.  While the call to arms will be spoken in different tongues, the underlying causes will be the same. 

As the Arab world unravels, should the West be worried?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353088/Egypt-protests-Tunisia-Jordan-unravel-West-worried.html

Revolutionary Fervor to Spread Beyond Arab States - Europe Next

http://yonkerstribune.typepad.com/yonkers_tribune/2011/02/trend-alert-revolutionary-fervor-to-spread-beyond-arab-states-europe-next-by-gerald-celente.html