People always make a big deal about the silliness of Modern Warfare 2 (Russia invading U.S. whoooooo), but one of the minor amusing things to me about its predecessor, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 1 is that the main enemy you fight is basically Saddam Hussein if he really was a supervillain. OpFor, the curiously not-Wahhabi-or-Iranian-revolutionary villains, seem to be perhaps secularist. They return in the second game, now having infested Afghanistan. Go figure.
So here's the idea: what if militant secular Arab Socialism became the equivalent of modern-day Muslim extremism, instead? And somehow was exportable to non-Arab states? Imagine Baathists from Saudi Arabia becoming Afghan Arabs.
All of this, of course, will be a big shift since Baathism unlike jihadist ideologies will be constrained by political ideologies, rather than a universal religion. So I'm not sure how it could mutate into something that non-Arab Muslims could adopt. And there are Baathist/Arab socialist states that would be a big target should the international Baathist terrorists attack the U.S. on 9/11- Iraq, Syria, maybe Libya. So this could still be quite different.
So here's the idea: what if militant secular Arab Socialism became the equivalent of modern-day Muslim extremism, instead? And somehow was exportable to non-Arab states? Imagine Baathists from Saudi Arabia becoming Afghan Arabs.
All of this, of course, will be a big shift since Baathism unlike jihadist ideologies will be constrained by political ideologies, rather than a universal religion. So I'm not sure how it could mutate into something that non-Arab Muslims could adopt. And there are Baathist/Arab socialist states that would be a big target should the international Baathist terrorists attack the U.S. on 9/11- Iraq, Syria, maybe Libya. So this could still be quite different.