Not so Sci-Fi

Science Fiction Is Always About the Present, Never the Future

Even if you don't agree with the conclusions, the piece is very well written, as well as entertaining. (HT: Emperor Misha)

I have insisted, and continue to insist, that this is a political, not a religious conflict. But in the protective cloak of religion, these totalitarians have a much better chance of recruiting members than ever the Nazis or the Communists did.

When the Nazi Party began in the 1920s, it averaged 2000 members. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, party membership had risen to 2.5 million. In 1945, when the Nazi Party was disbanded, official membership rolls listed a total of 8.5 million. (http://www.answers.com/topic/national-socialist-german-workers-party)

Because of the conviction of some 8.5 million, (many of whom were certainly not devoted Nazis) an entire continent had to be reduced to rubbish, and than totally rebuilt.

There is no doubt that the ideology of Islamism will have a stronger pull on the muslim masses than nazism held over the germans. And yet we try to tiptoe around the issue like a child trying not to leave a footprint in wet snow.