----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 7:23 PM Subject: Re: The Clash of Fundamentalisms
> You are mistaken. Islamic fundamentalism is a child of the 1970s. It was
> given a big boost by the Iranian revolution.
Mea culpa. However, your statements are in need of some qualification. Radical Islamic governments are a recent phenomenon. I doubt the religious fundamentalism that supports them could arise in the span of a single decade. Argument from analogy: although the Religious Right wasn't a visible electoral force until quite recently, Christian fundamentalism of one sort (from Puritanism to evangelism ) or another has been present in the US for some time.
-- Luke
> 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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