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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