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Article: Twilight of the Ayatollahs : Islamic fundamentalism is on the wane.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- August 30, 1999
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A civil war has been under way these last twenty years throughout the Muslim Middle East. The rulers in power, most of them nationalist and in outlook, have had to confront Islamic fundamentalists attempting to overthrow them. This conflict has roots deep in history, for it contains an issue of identity to which no clear answer has yet been found: How exactly is a society to be both modern and Muslim? Much of this civil war has been subterranean, conducted through mutual assassination and other acts of terror. But in Egypt, and even more frighteningly in Algeria, the civil war has been in the open. The outcome held the key to the region's future.
In both Egypt ...
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