The nature of Islamic Fundamentalism.

It can be seen as both fully political as well as fully religious.

Not to respect the boundaries between religion and politics goes against the basic tenants of our modern western ideology (Division of religion?Church and state).

Fundamentalism, so many believe, has to be either political or religious, but cannot be coterminous.
This should not be possible.
If it is political it can be opposed. If religious, constitution or conscience dictate that we tolerate it.

Yet by being both Islamic fundamentalism demonstrates the weakness of our structures and beliefs, we have to realise that what we are facing is not something from the 'modern' world.

It is a triumph of the emotional over the intellectual, whilst keeping the intellectual in subordination.

Eschatology is the future. Death is redemption. Realism is death. politics is eschatology.