In other words it's very similar to the way that the far-Right in the US has leveraged religious extremism for political power.
If the US were attacked again, how many fundies would be willing to die for the cause now?
I suppose at least there's a kind of psychotic symmetry to it.
Indeed.
But in the U.S. it is not yet acceptable to invoke religion to justify political actions. Operative word being "yet". We do have our proto-Bin Ladens.
And both American and Islamicist religious fundamentalists are scary.
Fortunately -- at least for now -- the former get marginalized when they start getting thumping their bible too loudly, while in multiple Islamic societies, they hold the reigns of power and wield them freely and openly. Point n'est besoin d'espérer pour entreprendre, ni de réussir pour persévérer. - Charles le Téméraire
