Denunciation by former jihadists may hurt, but the movement draws on a deep well of anti-Western hate.
It takes time to develop effective political organizations, and the Egyptian military's pell-mell push for elections plays into the hands of the already organized, Western-hating Muslim Brotherhood and other organizations of that ilk.
Few western nations hate and mistrust their government more than the US.
Western politicians hated the idea, fearing it might limit development and their own power, and it never went anywhere.
Economic forces are therefore compelling Spain to engage in closer relationship with the Western Powers, hated as they may be as "capitalistic" and as supporters of the "Reds" (the Falangists like the Nazis manage to combine anti-capitalism with anti-Communism).
The partnership, which gives Richard Dawkins a seat on the CFI board, smacks of a vindication of Dawkins' toxic, reactionary brand of damn-all-them-culturally-backward-Western-values-hating Muslims New Atheism.
The president told aides not to press the Saudis to change the strict Islamic teaching in schools that encourages young men to die for Allah and hate Western infidels.
Viewed that way, Dante becomes an emblem of everything contemporary critics of the Western canon bitterly hate and reject.
- "Muslims" are barbarians who hate Western freedoms and will kill us for them - "The West" is an ungodly, racist place that either forces you into debauchery or discrimination.
Hollywood is already firmly established as a source of cultural decadence in Iran's pantheon of hated western symbols.
Western political leaders hated the idea they feared this might limit development, and their own power and it never went anywhere.
