Der ägyptische Blogger Sandmonkey macht einen neuen Versuch:
Fundamentalism reaches past all that nonsense and chaos and into a primordial world where men were men and women weren’t, where no decisions ever had to be made, where every single option was laid out ahead of time by a firm but loving God, where families meant a certain thing and sex meant a certain thing, and everything was easy except temptation. But that’s obviously a crock. You can’t honestly tell me there was ever a time when human beings were less complex, less passionate or afraid or unpredictable, less wonderful than they are now.
For me, all this was a revelation on the level of learning, as a kid, that Allah and JHVH and the christian God were the same thing: that all Big Three monotheisms worship the God of Abraham and don’t even bother hiding that fact. The idea that “fundamentalism” was a logically tortured appeal to a beautiful pure world that never existed, and that Al Qaeda and Juniper Creek are essentially parallel movements with the same agenda and arising from the same confusion and fear… Revelatory.
Things are confusing, lots of stuff coming at your face all the time. Sex keeps getting less and less kind, and we keep blaming more and more shit on our parents and our kids, and technology is overwhelming and even the hippest among us can sometimes feel like the world is changing so fast and flying by so carelessly without giving us more than a glimpse of itself, much less a place to grab hold. I can’t say they don’t have a point. But then, terrorists usually do. If they didn’t have something to say (even if it’s usually a crock of bullshit), they wouldn’t feel silenced, and they wouldn’t pull the shit they pull. They wouldn’t feel the need to scream so loudly that the whole world must listen.
Al Qaeda und Juniper Creek (evangelikaler Fundamentalismus) entstammen allerdings nicht „der gleichen Verwirrung und Angst“ im Angesicht der Moderne. Von einer „gleichen Agenda“ mal ganz zu schweigen. Das mag ein tröstlicher Gedanke sein für einen Ägypter, der sich mit Schrecken dem Fundamentalismus im eigenen Land gegenüber sieht (Al-Zawahiri ist ein ägyptischer Arzt). Aber letztlich bringen solche überzogenen Parallelisierungen nichts.
Den ersten und den dritten Absatz finde ich allerdings treffend.