My interest in the chilinder would quickly fade once it became clear that chili was not involved. See also chiliasm.

--- Ajax.

P.S. In re:

Now if we can only convince Dar al-Islam to return to religious toleration, maybe the region can have another Golden Age. Unfortunately, it probably doesn't work that way, unless it comes with a side order of complete collapse of Western Society.

In Orson Scott Card's Shadow series, he arranges the return of a new Caliphate to political prominence by postulating that the Islamic states would welcome Israel into their bosom in exchange for the bomb.

So, yeah.

-- A.