Young people do not become fundamentalists because their parents' culture is ignored by Western civilization. Fundamentalist religiosity is individual and generational, a rebellion against the religion of one's parents.
因此原教旨主义不是独创文化对威胁的反抗，它反映的是这些文化的逐步消失。因此将现代形式的原教旨主义与文化冲突联系在一起简直大错特错。年轻人不会因为父辈的文化被西方忽略而成为原教旨主义者，相反，原教旨主义的虔诚既是个人行为，也代表了一个时代对父辈宗教信仰的反抗。