<Do you really think the ideas of Islamo-fascism - totalitarianism, hatred of the "Jews and Crusaders", and a desire to drive out the modern word with religious fanaticism - are so powerful and attractive that they will win in the long term? Do you really? >
I think it's Stockholm Syndrome on a very grand scale.
Jim Jones, David Koresh, Heaven's Gate, Symbionese Liberation Army, the Korean Kims, Chairman Mao, Heil Hitler etc, we've seen the way humans in cults work. There's a male great leader and their acolyte high priests and the masses goose-stepping or kneeling to Mecca or waving their arms in Hallelujah mania.
There's always enforcement, usually of quite barbaric style, such as burnings at the stake, cutting off fingers, hands, arms etc, burning in oil, and the Aztecs made a great show of cutting out hearts.
The appeal of the way of life seems universal, at least to the bosses and main acolytes.
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