Before we start comparing populations in the developing world to European ones, we need to be clearer on all this.
Christopher Rhoades Dukema
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Absolutely agree.
Although it was probably not obvious, it was because I am not particularly thrilled with the term clerical fascism, and don't think much can be had from an analysis of either the US or Europe, that I started back at the beginning--so to speak--reading the OT and parts of the Qur'an, and some part of the Talmud. These are primary text for the Middle East---these works still live in the mind people there. I can't psychoanalyze them, and don't know any of the relevant sociology or politics, but these texts are there to read and figure out, so I decided to begin there. It's better than guessing.
There is something distinctly different going on in the various religious based resusciations of their antique socio-political orders, that the term fascism doesn't address. Don't ask me what, I don't know. Maybe after reading some more it will become more tangible to me.
Chuck Grimes