I see a parallel in these rigid theocracies with their daily edicts and the christian coalition movement in the states. Jerry Falwell has more in common with, say, Saudi Arabian culture than he does with normal Americans.
That being said, I don't hold with many Americans fairly casually replacing "Communists" with "Muslims" as the bogeyman of the 21st Century.
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