I found this while surfing Xmas day and thought it would help explain some of the BS.
Radical Islam may be as totalitarian and as morally bankrupt as any of these past or mostly defunct "isms," but its current appeal isn't hard to figure out. Unlike fascism or communism, radical Islam is locally grown, and not plagued by charges of foreign contamination
FresnoBee.com: Victor Davis Hanson: Why radical Islam? And why now?
This is well writwen and thought provoking, at least IMO.