Book: Islamic Fundamentalism

Islamic Fundamentalism - The new Global Threat - Mohammad Mohaddessin

Foreword

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The new nexus, it soon was learned, began in Tehran with approximately $100 million a year in expenditures; ideas, influence, and money then moved to Sudan, where that country's government transformed it into training camps and influence for fundamentalists from Algeria to Tunisia to Egypt and (again) the Gulf. The situation by 1993 had become so serious that Turkish President Turgut Ozal warned when he came to Washington that the world was now facing basically a "religious war" of extremist and radically politicized Islam against the West...

Preface

Introduction: In the eye of the Storm

I
Dogmatism Versus Democracy: A Brief History of Fundamentalism

The Fundamentalist Appeal

Fanaticism Versus Liberty

Kharajites: First Advocates of Dogmatism

Legitimizing the Status Quo

Democratic, Antireactionary Islamic Movements

Shi'ism in Safavid and Post-Safavid Iran

Iran's Constitutional Revolution of 1906

Sunnism and the New Era

Conclusion

II

The Pillars of the Mullahs' Rule

Two Pillars of Khomeini's Rule:

Terror

Export of Islamic Revolution

Velayat-e-faqih in the Constitution

III
The Post - Khomeini Regime
Constitution Revised
Moderation an Anathema

IV
Mother of All Islamic Lands": The Mullahs' Foreign Policy

V
Fertile Grounds for Fundamentalism

The Power of Islam
A Bastion of Islamic Culture
Decline of Nationalism
Role of Oil
Global Changes
Appeasement: An Ominous Policy
Fundamentalism and Islam's Great Schism
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