Muslims tend to be concerned more about the "afterlife" than life in the "here and now".
True believers don't rise to true, state ruling, positions of power. The power hungry, and those who enjoy the privileges of power, do. Their main concern is maintaining their life of privilege. If that requires a pretense at being a religious fanatic, they are happy to oblige, but it's a pretense.
That is quite the assumption about religious fanatics.....
The nature of state-ruling power-seekers and the nature of true-believing religious-fanatics are incompatible with one another. People seek state-ruling power mainly to enjoy the privileges attached thereto, not in order to blow themselves up. One can do the latter easily enough without first seeking a position of state-ruling power.
