al-Qaeda and Taliban

[Chip Berlet]

Hi,

For the PRA page on understanding Islamic Fundamentalism, especially
Wahabbism and Salafism, and their relationship to the Taliban and Osama bin
Laden, see:

http://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/911/wahhabism.html

Also the new article on the role of Islamic Fundamentalism:

Islamic Terrorism:
>From Retrenchment to Ressentiment and Beyond

Lauren Langman and Douglas Morris
Loyola University of Chicago

http://www.angelfire.com/or3/tss2/islterror.html

Ressentiment is a concept of Nietzsche explaining how a condition of
repressed desire and emotion can create new forms of moral and political
expression focused on envy and revenge.

-Chip