[Das Outsider]

Yeah, I noticed. The part you italicized in your post is what made me think of Elijah's taunting in I Kings 18.

And really, the more that I look at it, I see the escalating situation in the Mideast as symptomatic not so much of "extremists," but Islam unveiled. You mentioned reading "The Hobbit" to your kids, so you may have already done "The Chronicles of Narnia"--something I highly recommend. The last book in the series, aptly titled, "The Last Battle," is a paraphrase of St. John's Revelation. It's interesting that Lewis alludes to Islam (the religion of Tash), Allah (Tash), and Muslims (the Calormenes). My point is that, in the "The Last Battle," once the Calormenes dropped the "Aslan and Tash are one"--IOW, Jehovah and Allah are the same--lie, they were exposed and made no bones about it: I think that's what we're seeing today.

[HKMk23]

That's an excellent analogy; prescient on the part of Lewis.

Prophetic, even.

My "I don't KNOW, but I THINK" file contains this notation:
The Antichrist -- not some dimestore phony, but the real deal -- will be Muslim.

Consider these concepts:
Isaac v. Ishmael and their Descendants in Confilct: Christ v. Antichrist
The Unmasking of Allah: From Allah=YHWH to Allah<>YHWH