1. ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM: GLOBAL MISUNDERSTANDING OR GLOBAL THREAT?
... supported by the Syrian government), to The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jordan (in 1981, Islamic millitants, members of this party, assasinated Egyptian president Sadat), to the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria. But where do all these extremist measures come from? On what are they based? According to Burmeister , the main reason for the spread of terrorism is the concept ... interesting fact is that the word "fundamentalism" has no equivalent in Arabic. Bahman Baktiari, a political science proffesor at the American University in Cairo states that "Islamic fundamentalism is a purely...
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