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Originally Posted by MrMaelstrom
Here I disagree. I find that the real issues of the non-extremists are in fact strongly determined by land (as well).
Not in the extremist "we must drive these infidels from this holy/sacred ground", but as a literal space/territory that that can shelter "your" people and in which their future can be determined by themselves.
I know it stinks to high heaven of the nazi Lebens Raum (vital space) theory which led to Chekoslovakia, Bavaria, Austria and finnaly triggering WWII in Poland, but it is still a major issue, specifically hydric resources.
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Extremists use the religion of Islam to fuel political and personal motivation. It, in fact, hides that. Much in the way that Ayatollah Khomneini declared that the war on Iraq, which was obviously over territory and a peronal feud that had been going on between Saddam and Khomneini before the war, was a religious war for Islam against the son of Satan (
Saddam). What was the war actually about? Territorial invasion and how much that land meant to the Iranians as well as integrity. Though the public was fed that crap about Islam and a holy war, so-forth and so-on, in reality, hundreds of thousands of Iranians died for a territorial dispute and personal feud.
Radicals and Islamic extremists' goals are often political, not religious. Much like Ayman al-Zawahiri, the real brains behind al-Qaeda. Any publication you read of that man's, it's focused entirely on polical goals with some religious rhetoric thrown in at a bare minimum. The people that follow these men are the ones that are the real religious zealots. But then agian, they're not the ones making the decisions other than their own to pull a trigger at a target that was predesignated to them.
There are many exceptions, but in most cases, holy wars have underlying goals that have nothing to do with Islam.