50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know by Ben Dupre

50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know by Ben Dupre

Author:Ben Dupre [Dupré, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2013-04-17T16:00:00+00:00


The false face of Islam

Given the staggering success of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, it was perhaps inevitable, and certainly unhelpful, that al-Qaeda—however nebulous an entity it is in reality—would become the international face of Islamism and that its extreme agenda would wrongly be assumed by many to reflect a commonly held Muslim viewpoint. To make matters worse, the portrait of Islamic fanaticism was fleshed out with gruesome details provided by the Taliban, a fundamentalist Muslim regime which harbored al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, where it had seized power in 1996 and proceeded to impose highly repressive theocratic rule on the Afghan people. Terrorist atrocities, near-medieval social repression, suicide bombings, televised beheadings—all have conspired to paint the most lurid picture of Islamic fundamentalism, and by false implication, of Islam itself.



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