THE RADICAL POLITICS OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM

http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20060313&s=goldhagen031306 ^ | Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

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Political Islam--aggressive, totalitarian--is now fully on the offensive. On January 3, Iran announced it would restart its nuclear program, which, despite its formal denials, is transparently meant to produce a nuclear weapon. On January 25, Palestinians gave a resounding electoral victory to the avowedly annihilative Islamic messianic political party Hamas, which has now turned to Iran for assistance. And, in the last days of January and first days of February, four quiescent months after a Danish newspaper printed political cartoons of Mohammed, violent mass protests against Denmark and other European countries erupted in the Islamic world. However disturbing each of these three developments is individually, we would miss their greater significance if we did not see their fundamental relatedness. In fact, they are ominously more important than the sum of their parts.

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I've been beating on the Drum, "The dangers of Militant Islam," until I'm blue in the face.
Let those with eyes, see...

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