Great analysis until the author decides that opposing Saddam or Islam is the same as totalitarianism. Then, we’re just operating at the level of dumbed down Liberalism.
That is particularly true in light of the “dream of a queer fellow” with its vision of the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers K. We see a world controlled by a religion of a ruling class akin to the Ayatollohs, religious figures that are so all powerful they don’t “need” Christ when he appears because “thay” are the “state” that must be worshiped.