Islamic Fundamentalism
Islamic Fundamentalism | Islamic Fundamentalist Schools Foster Terrorism
Tashbih Sayyed is editor-in-chief of In Review, a quarterly journal of the United States Institute of Strategic Studies for South Asia, and of Pakistan Today, a weekly national newspaper published in California.
Summary: Wahabiism, a rigid, fundamentalist division of Islam, has been steadily growing since the 1970s. Wahabis established schools in Muslim countries, known as madrasas, in which they teach children that Jews and Americans are responsible for the rampant poverty and political turmoil in the Middle East. These teachings instill such...
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Table of Contents
- The Difference Between Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism
- Islam Is Compatible with Democracy
- Fundamentalist Islam Is Not Compatible with Democracy
- Islamist Misogyny Has Its Roots in Islam
- Islamist Misogyny Does Not Have Its Roots in Islam
- Islamic Fundamentalism Is a Threat to the United States
- Islam Is Not a Threat to the West
- Islamic Fundamentalist Schools Foster Terrorism
- Islamist Terrorism Does Not Reflect Islam
- Fundamentalism Exists Across All Religions
- Islamic Fundamentalism Is Being Shaped by the West
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
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