I’m going to write a follow up post dealing with Dr MacEion’s response to criticism of the methodology of his “academic survey”.

The three main religious fundamentalist movements (apologies to ‘Hindu’ extremists) Israeli-Jewish, Saudi-Wahabbi and American-Christian all require the support of the US Government to stay in existence, rather than the support of their individual congregations.

The bizarre twist being that the Israeli government promoted so-called ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ amongst their illegaly occupied Palestinian population in order to undermine the secular PLO ie Hamas was born.

The US government promoted the Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. Indeed, the Rambo III movie credits at the end od the movie dedicates the film to the ‘freedom fighters’ of Afghanistan ie the Al Quaeda-ish Anti-Godless-Communist Resistence Movement.

The US and UK governments destroyed Iranian democracy, and in reaction to the Soviet-style American dictatorship of the Shah, the Iranian Revolution produced the current Shia fundamentalist government - although to be fair, it is nowhere near as bad as the American dictatorship in Saudi Arabia or the American Apartheid regime in Israel, currently engaged in the genocide of Palestine

All the best folks!