>From: "Luke Weiger" <lweiger at umich.edu>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: The Clash of Fundamentalisms
>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:46:16 -0700
>
>Joanna wrote:
> > No, but the ones we're dealing with right now, were.
> >
> > Joanna
>
>I can't pretend that I know Middle Eastern history very well. However, I
>was under the impression that Islamic fundamentalism predated widespread US
>involvement in the region.
>-- Luke
>
You are mistaken. Islamic fundamentalism is a child of the 1970s. It was given a big boost by the Iranian revolution. Basically it is a reaction to the failure of pan-Arabism, a secular "socialist" doctrine associated variously with Nasr in Egypt and Baathism in Syria and Iraq.
jks
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