When identity-based movements bonding the pampered upper class with the neglected underclass arise in American culture, it should not surprise us when they develop analogs elsewhere in the world.

Of these, none is in need of more urgent attention than what is currently occurring in the Islamic world.

Again, I will leave it for others to explore the international relations, political and military origins of the Islamic fundamentalist revolutionary movement.  For purposes of this discussion, identity issues in a dissociative world are topic enough.