Thoughts on Modernity and Islam

I mean to directly engage your idea that "the very force which has made Islamism a threat will also limit, contain, and ultimately suppress it. That force is modernity." Your thesis is well taken - to be a threat you must have some position of power. The Middle East having been emasculated for the past century; its appurtenant religious affiliation therefore equally underwhelming in efficacy, are substantive symptoms of your claim. Technology has proven the mechanism whereby Islamacists have overcome this lengthy impotency. But will it prove a inhibitor of its own progeny's strength?
I believe modernity (if you assign more facets than mere technology to this noun) engenders further violence, not an eventual defeat of it. This is possible because of a fracturing of power between governments (as monolithic entities) and people. Technology is the weapon (power) of the people, militaries are the weapon (power) of government. Militaries, as we have seen in this latest and most grand display in Iraq, are ill-suited to fight the new-age battles. The Chechen revolt being another suitable example. As the distance between the power of people and government grows (as the result of increasingly sophisticated technologies) a natural attempt to reconcile this gap will result in...friction, conflict. It's as if two magnets, now having been energized, are found to be of equal strength and opposing poles. The power of the government formerly omnipresent, now the power of the people maturing to the point where the two forces stand in virtual opposition, bound by mutual desire for omnipotence yet unable to neutralize the opposing force. Locked in eternal struggle for hegemony!