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# Fukuyama on Muslims
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2986/
- Published: 2005-11-10T16:45:42.000Z
- Updated: 2005-11-10T16:45:42.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Current Affairs, #wpChunk

I disagree with Francis Fukuyama's "Democracy for All!" approach (and heck, based on this blurb, I'm not even sure he believes in it), but [he raises a good point](http://www.washtimes.com/culture/culturebriefs.htm?ref=thedailyeudemon.com):

> Radical Islamism is in no way an assertion of traditional Muslim values or religiosity. ... In a tractional Muslim society, your identity is fixed by the society into which you are born; only when you live in a non-Muslim environment does it occur to you to ask who you are.

> The profound alienation that results makes poorly assimilated second- and third-generation Muslims susceptible to a pure, universalistic ideology like that of Osama bin Laden. Mohamed Atta and the other organizers of 9/11, the Madrid and London conspirators, and Mohammed Bouyeri, murderer of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, all fall into this category.

> This means that more democracy and more modernization will not solve our near-term terrorism problem. I believe that both democracy and modernization are good things and should be promoted in the Middle East for their own sake. But we will continue to have a serious problem in democratic Western Europe, regardless of what happens in Egypt or Lebanon."