irateplatypus

superbelt,

in order for your hypothetical speculation to stand up... you must first create a millenium of christian theocracy in this country to make it work. once that fancy is solidly in place you must next dispense with the constitution.

only now have we switched the CC and the taliban.

to properly deconstruct this would require volumes of history and months of careful analysis. you can't just say "ok... here are the fundamentalists on this side, so we can automatically conclude that if the tables were turned the fundamentalists on this other side will have the same reaction."

there are many other factors in play here: geopolitics, israel, radical differences of style and tone of sacred texts, sharia, the colonial-modern-postmodern shifts... the list goes on.

even if you were to imagine that our recent contexts were the same, that each fundamentalist movement would have the same environment in which to grow (an idea that is clearly flawed), you would ignore two millenia of history to draw so many neat and tidy parallels.

there are fundamentalist components to nearly every religion. there are fundamentalist components in nearly every country. there is something historically significant and almost a sense of uniqueness about the current iteration of islamic fundamentalism.

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