FYI
John123, just read this article from Middle Eastern International and BEFORE you try to reply to my earlier statements try to UNDERSTAND and LEARN its meaning. You tell me that I and others are quick to get angry or judge or react, etc. but you are to quick to reply to things of which you most likely have no actual knowledge. I will not reply any further, if you still don't get it then I guess I am talking to a stone.
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""Islamic fundamentalism" may be defined as a political ideology which aims at islamizing or re-islamizing law, institutions and government. It wants to set up an Islamic state with a constitutional framework and political organisation solely based on Islam with the Sharia or Islamic law as its sole legal reference.
The modern form of Islamic fundamentalism appeared at the turn of this century both as a reaction against modernist movements trying to westernize the Muslim world and as a resistance movement against colonial empires, particularly the British.
Two tendencies surfaced:
* the reformist or evolutionary (salafiyya) tendency, which was a SMALL MINORITY [empahsis added], advocated a return to the original model of Islamic society which had generated the splendid Arab culture and civilisation. The Sharia is therefore considered as a system of universal reference which must be interpreted and adapted to the realities of today through the opening of the fates of idjtihâd;
* the FUNDAMENTALIST tendency advocate going back to the roots of Islam and reject all interpretation of the Sharia which, in their view, should be applied litterally to all fields of life.
Although all Islamic fundamentalist movements share the same objective (the creation of an Islamic state) they have different views on the strategies, structures and socio-political organisation of this type of state.
[Read this part carefully, John] The radical movements think that the Islamic state must be created from the top downwards and if necessary through violent action. They do NOT [empahsis added] want to wait until society gradually becomes Islamic and do not want any compromise with existing regimes (this is the case with the Gamaat Islamiya in Egypt and the GIA in Algeria).
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As far as the Arab world is concerned, Islamic fundamentalism developed at different periods in time, particularly in the 18th century in the Arabic Peninsula (see Wahabism) and in the 20th century in Egypt (see Muslim Brothers) and in other countries in the seventies and eighties (see FIS, Hamas and Hizbollah) as a reaction to specific challenges. The Iranian revolution (although belonging to Shia Islam) and the war in Afghanistan (see Afghans) played an important role in spreading Islamic fundamentalism. "
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I have all along only been referring to this "radical, fundamentalist" movement; and I stand by my statements.
John123, just read this article from Middle Eastern International and BEFORE you try to reply to my earlier statements try to UNDERSTAND and LEARN its meaning. You tell me that I and others are quick to get angry or judge or react, etc. but you are to quick to reply to things of which you most likely have no actual knowledge. I will not reply any further, if you still don't get it then I guess I am talking to a stone.
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""Islamic fundamentalism" may be defined as a political ideology which aims at islamizing or re-islamizing law, institutions and government. It wants to set up an Islamic state with a constitutional framework and political organisation solely based on Islam with the Sharia or Islamic law as its sole legal reference.
The modern form of Islamic fundamentalism appeared at the turn of this century both as a reaction against modernist movements trying to westernize the Muslim world and as a resistance movement against colonial empires, particularly the British.
Two tendencies surfaced:
* the reformist or evolutionary (salafiyya) tendency, which was a SMALL MINORITY [empahsis added], advocated a return to the original model of Islamic society which had generated the splendid Arab culture and civilisation. The Sharia is therefore considered as a system of universal reference which must be interpreted and adapted to the realities of today through the opening of the fates of idjtihâd;
* the FUNDAMENTALIST tendency advocate going back to the roots of Islam and reject all interpretation of the Sharia which, in their view, should be applied litterally to all fields of life.
Although all Islamic fundamentalist movements share the same objective (the creation of an Islamic state) they have different views on the strategies, structures and socio-political organisation of this type of state.
[Read this part carefully, John] The radical movements think that the Islamic state must be created from the top downwards and if necessary through violent action. They do NOT [empahsis added] want to wait until society gradually becomes Islamic and do not want any compromise with existing regimes (this is the case with the Gamaat Islamiya in Egypt and the GIA in Algeria).
* * *
As far as the Arab world is concerned, Islamic fundamentalism developed at different periods in time, particularly in the 18th century in the Arabic Peninsula (see Wahabism) and in the 20th century in Egypt (see Muslim Brothers) and in other countries in the seventies and eighties (see FIS, Hamas and Hizbollah) as a reaction to specific challenges. The Iranian revolution (although belonging to Shia Islam) and the war in Afghanistan (see Afghans) played an important role in spreading Islamic fundamentalism. "
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I have all along only been referring to this "radical, fundamentalist" movement; and I stand by my statements.
