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Article: SEEDS OF WAR : What drives Islamic fundamentalists.(Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia)(Brief Article)
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- October 26, 2001
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The same Islamic fundamentalism that inspires Osama bin Laden is shared by the two Muslim states that are the United States' most important allies in its war against terrorism. Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy ruled by the Wahhabi religious movement, which is at the source of modern Islamic fundamentalism. The military government of Pakistan is heavily under the influence of the same fundamentalist convictions that animate the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Osama bin Ladin, accused leader of the group responsible for the September 11 terrorist outrages in New York and Washington, is a Wahhabi--one who believes that his religion has been betrayed. This Islamic reform ...
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