1. ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM: GLOBAL MISUNDERSTANDING OR GLOBAL THREAT?
... Khomeini was inoculating the belief that anyone who is not a fundamentalist is an ennmy of Allah. This two-edged view of believers and non-believers in Allah ("the City of Faith" and "the City of War", alegoric names for the Muslim countries and Western countries respectively) crystallized itself into the idea that the only solution of bringing infidels to the true ... faith is by starting the Jihad (Holy War) and that all who participate in it are heroes of the faith and will gain access to Paradise. What we should understand from this is that fundamentalism is not a dangerous phenomen...
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