Greg....I state Western "democracy",because in reality it is not democracy at all, but an all powerful economic system which enslaves those it contains in the "money trap".
To survive, this monstrous machine requires to continually expand and create the environment in which the slaves exchange their time happiness and appreciation of the world and all it contains for money.
The operators of the machine immediately take the money back as payments for enormous mortgages, insurance of same, credit card payments, credit card penaties, bank charges and hire purchase payments on all manner of junk which we are told we cannot live without, but in reality don't need at all.

The Islamic fundamentalists may be mad, but they are not so mad that they cannot see how this creeping virus will affect the power structure of the Mullahs and Moslem culture.
And more importantly they have realised that the machine runs not only on the sweat of the slaves and vast quantities of energy which Moslems control, but also on the confidence of the owners of the machine.

A mere handful of religious fanatics who embrace death rather then life would be able to cause such damage to the confidence of the owners and shareholders that the machine would shudder to a halt.
The slaves , seeing the means of procuring the lifestyle they believe they cannot live without taken from them,panic and before long anarchy reigns.

Now this is probably a very good thing for the welfare of planet Earth, but a very bad thing for the owners of Western "democracy".
In my opinion the said owners are approaching the point where they will be prepared to take ANY measures to defend their system...Ake