Of course the West is subjugating the Middle East. It is not some evil CIA plot, it is consumerism, that turns people into status seeking people with a craving for things that will bestow them with greater status. Satellite TV, advertising and hucksterism are tearing down the structure of immutable Islam. In a consumer society, women must be consumers. They must be free to shop, gossip about their Pradas and Effendis, flatscreen TVs, and fashions. Traditional Islam sees women more as a necessary child breeding and raising appliance. If women are liberated, they will want money, and that leads to them wanting careers, jobs, and they will no longer have time to instil in young Aisha or Hassan the absolute necessity of memorizing the Koran or praying five times a day. If Western consumerism wins, traditional Islam goes down the tubes. Just like the Shakers and the Quakers and the Amana Colony have gone down the tubes in the USA.
We hate the idea that in Saudi Arabia, women cannot drive a car. Drive it where? To the MALL, of course. Western consumerism also pushes women as sex symbols, which traditional Islam sees as something that will turn their society into orgies in which no one will bother to pray five times a day as Mohammad taught.
Madison Avenue is the greatest threat to Mohammad ever.
Western consumerism is a much more powerful and persistent threat to traditional Islam than the D-Day landings were to the Nazis. There is no way they can stop it or turn it off. Radical Islam is a violent reaction to the assault to Western consumerism.
Of course, the medieval idea of traditional Islam involves rule of the few , oligarchs and the very, very wealthy, and abject poverty of a huge number of people, and women seen as chattel.
