In order to justify causing harm to a person/s, first you've to dehumanise them to justify attacking them, you are not going to hurt someone you care about until they dip below the threshold of being human. The west has been sold this notion of "Muslims bad" since 2001.
Mo Gawdat isn't guessing about the the next 10 years+. He's focusing that war, jobs shortages, surveillance, concentration of power will be the rule of the day. But there's light at the end of the tunnel. That if you make it to 2038...