Delusional Ideologies

Not a Winning Strategy - Josh Patashnik, The Plank

I would have to concur with Patashnik with one added element. Inside those nations 'failed' by Islam there would exist a hard-core traditionalist element who would claim that Islam didn't fail but was sabotaged by the West. Thus we end up back where we started. The same thing will happen with the social conservativism of the last few decades wherein social conservativism might have succeeded if it wasn't for those godless liberals getting in the way. An ideology doesn't fail until the majority of its previous adherents perceive it as failed. Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan are two strong examples of this and even then there were those who believed that their disastrous ideologies were still valid. There are crazy, delusional and sometimes just plain stupid people in the world who will believe in almost anything.