Islam: Power of the People?

Matt - you write that the technology that enables the violence of Islamism will also serve to empower people's movements and destabilize governments. Surely. But much of Islamism's threat derives from the great zeal of its adherents and the terroristic violence they inflict. Surely the oppressive theocratic principles that animate Islamism cannot survive an environment of free association and communication, even if many governments in the world cannot either?