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EVANGELICALS' ANTI-ISLAM REMARKS ARE TESTAMENT TO IGNORANCE

...In this untethered Islam, the apocalyptic mystique and message of an Osama bin Laden could grow because the Muslim world had become a society under stress and duress. Strangely enough, this same apocalyptic message -- always ending in terrible destruction and the conversion of "the other" -- is strikingly similar to the Armageddonite message of many evangelical Christians. Both ideas are in part responses to the alienating modern world. ...