This guy would be a fascinating dinner guest…

And now what‘s happening in this narrative is that the Umma, the global population of Muslims, is going to unite. It’s going to rise up through a global guerrilla struggle. And in fact, Ayman al Zawahiri who’s primarily the major Al Qaeda ideologue, actually wrote a paper about this. About how the method was going to be fast moving, lightly equipped guerrilla forces that operated across the world This whole global guerrilla idea. That there’d be a great clash of civilizations and that God would provide the victory. And it’s a pan-Islamic, neo-Salafist narrative. Incidentally there isn’t a huge amount of Islam there. You know I just showed you that it follows a very similar pattern for the Nazis, the Christians, the Communists. It’s a pretty standard form. And of course it also draws a number of concepts from European thinking. You know the idea of globalization, the idea of the clash of civilizations, notions of guerrilla struggle. These things aren’t fundamentally Islamic. They are, in fact, part of a post-modern view of the world.