I believe your point was "Shared technology (invented by the West) does not equal in any way shared values." I stated (accurately) that the Menonites would disagree with your statement. In other words, they reject modern technology as a means of demonstrating they reject modern values. I never claimed they were a terrorist organization.
Modernism was touted by the Ba'athists, and the Nasserites, and the pan-Arabists for a time.
There is no one more keen on acquiring modern implements of destruction than terrorist networks like Al Qaeda, but that doesn't prevent them from desiring a return to pre- medieval times.
The remark most often made whenever another Yankee cap-wearing, boombox-carrying, seemingly "modern" Muslim goes on a self-immolation mission that results in the deaths of scores of his purported countrymen-the humans that live in his adopted nation, a nation that has embraced him, but which he has rejected-is how conflicted he was before finalizing his kamikaze mission.
It is an irreconcilable internal conflict.
Don't trust me, read Dalrymple.
And I have no idea what you were implying in your previously posted comment.
Are you seriously implying that we should normalize diplomatic relations with Iran or Syria?
I don't know if this has dawned on you, but we tried the "engagement" strategy with both of those nations-especially the IRI-and it was a miserable, unmitigated failure.