Ha! Actually less tongue in cheek than you may think. While not religious based ( other than to say it is an anti-Islam sentiment) I do feel traditional connection with our crusading forebearers, and also see some gain in arising the furor of the enemy in order to make them as irrational as possible.
ANYONE KNOW WHAT CONSTITUTES THE TERM "WORLD WAR"????
for something to be called world war III, does it have to meet a definition or do people just refer to it as that enough times and then that's what it ends up being called?