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Article: Radical Islam: the death of an ideology?
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- Middle East Policy
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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Since the tragedies of September 11, 2001, the United States has invested its war on terrorism with the loftier vision of diminishing the zeal of radical Islam. President Bush and the architects of America's policy insist that the best manner of combating terrorism and ensuring stable societies is to extinguish the fires of radical Islam. Indeed, Osama bin Laden and his cohort of militants are inspired by a distorted vision of Islam and sanctify their campaign of violence through a selective reading of Quranic phrases. However, beyond the narrow band of terrorists hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan and the occasional fulminations of radical clerics, the critical ...
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