What is the world's most dangerous ideology?

In the first part of the 20th century, the answer was fascism.

First manifest in Italy in the 1920s and then in Nazi Germany and in Imperial Japan.

It took a world war and 50 million debt to stamp it out.

In the second half of the 20th century, the answer was communism.

Between the Soviet Union, Mao's China and their client states at least 100 million people

were killed in its wake.

Today the answer is Islamism, a radical and often violent form of Islam.

Like fascism and communism, Islamism is totalitarian in nature.

The state controls everything.

Also like fascism and communism, Islamism is inherently expansionist.

It always seeks to get bigger, cross borders and bring as many people as possible under

its control.

And like fascism and communism, many of Islamism's adherents are prepared to kill to achieve

its aims.

Those aims are antithetical to everything Western and other free society stand for.

Free speech, free enterprise, freedom to practice or not to practice any religion, freedom

of assembly, of free press and of course, fundamental human and civil rights for all their

citizens.

Islamism completely rejects the Western principle of separating religion from government.

In its view, governments are a legitimate only if they rule according to religious law.

In Islamism's case, Sharia, Islam's extensive body of sacred laws.

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