I disagree here. Fundie Muslims have far more in common with radical Lefties, and would probably work well with Lefty terrorist groups. Points of commonality include the idea that the Individual is unimportant except as far as he serves the interests of the Group (whether the Group is the State or the Ummah is of secondary importance).
I hope you and others are right. Here’s my fear. A huge number of Muslims do not live for this world. They live for the world after death, with God. The same God most of us believe in. That is why so many of them can blow themselves up. It may hurt on Planet Earth, but the reward is in heaven. This is also why things like “women’s rights” are a joke to them. Muslims have enough faith to reject the modern world.
RFC’s are about to that same point. This world is evil. Things in this world are of Satan. Most are not yet so deep into it that they are willing to blow themselves up, but I do not see that as a big step to be made. I think it is a little step. The further one goes down the road of consistency with an ethos, the easier it is to overdo it. (For example, Look at the some of the people who read Atlas Shrugged—they go off the deep end).
Now, we as a country are headed for a major societal breakdown. It will be a depression, whether now, a few years from now, or ten years from now. Whenever it hits, life as we know it is going to go thru some pretty big upheavals. We aren’t going to be able to afford so many of the things that we have taken for granted for years. From education, to pizzas, to jet skis, whatever, these things will be hard earned. This is going to drive America back to God, back to conservatism, and will have a lot of good effects, IMHO. Fundamental Christianity will thrive. We won’t be able to afford a bunch of illegitimate children. Knocked up girls are going to have get married. Drug using new son-in-laws are going to start getting their *sses kicked by grandpas, and they are going to have to get serious, get jobs, and friggin grow up.
In other words, life socially will go back pretty much where it was in the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s. Again, IMHO. Only way America will be able to compete with other nations who do not have a mass of deadweight to have to carry.
Anyway, this atmosphere will be ripe for an explosion in RFC, and most Muslims are pretty socially conservative. Their girls are not pushed into being sex objects. Thievery and drug use are not tolerated. Neither is adultery. Obedience to parents is demanded and punished when not forthcoming.
A lot of beliefs in common. I think is fertile ground for cross pollination.
parsy, who hopes he is wrong