[livius]

I think you made a very important point.

One of the many things that unnerves me about Islam is that I think it has the potential to be very popular in the US among New Age religion folks, many of whom are very Gnostic in tendency. And anti-Semitism (even among the New Age religionists who are of Jewish descent) goes hand in glove with it, because you cannot accept the revelation of God and the Law that is fundamental to Judaism and accept the Gnostic world view at the same time.

[Destro]

Exactly!! I was stunned and disgusted at the level of anti-Semetisim involved in these Gnostic movements mixed in with anti-Christian (mostly directed at Catholics) as I did research. Gnostic is the proper way to define the new age/wicca movements, IMHO. The Gnostic movement was not unknown to the Nazis and the Gnostics were a heavy influence on emerging Islam. With this post we have a first person account here were all those three elements meet.