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A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values Islamism on the March, 1990s–2016

A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values : Islamism on the March,... CHAPTER 7 I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life. Khalid ibn-Walid, 7th Century warrior and companion of Muhammad The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic law. Bernard Lewis (1995) The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years , p. 234 With the Cold War ending and with the world trying to come to grips with the detritus of Communism, Western values moved ahead in the struggle for global values, including winning support in a few important Islamic countries. Turkey and some other parts of the Islamic world that had been Western colonies, countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, strengthened their embrace of some Western values, particularly by establishing a measure of representative and democratic government, fostering economic enterprise, setting up universities with a varying degree of academic freedom, tolerating minority cultures, supporting some women’s rights, broadening the inter- pretation of Sharia law, instituting some separation of mosque and state, and proposing to defi ne jihad as an internal, individual war against sin. However, just as in Russia, there appeared a powerful, extremist cur- rent in Islamic society called Islamism that challenged Western values and offered fundamentalist Islamic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values Islamism on the March, 1990s–2016

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
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978-3-319-32566-8
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151 –175
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CHAPTER 7 I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life. Khalid ibn-Walid, 7th Century warrior and companion of Muhammad The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic law. Bernard Lewis (1995) The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years , p. 234 With the Cold War ending and with the world trying to come to grips with the detritus of Communism, Western values moved ahead in the struggle for global values, including winning support in a few important Islamic countries. Turkey and some other parts of the Islamic world that had been Western colonies, countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, strengthened their embrace of some Western values, particularly by establishing a measure of representative and democratic government, fostering economic enterprise, setting up universities with a varying degree of academic freedom, tolerating minority cultures, supporting some women’s rights, broadening the inter- pretation of Sharia law, instituting some separation of mosque and state, and proposing to defi ne jihad as an internal, individual war against sin. However, just as in Russia, there appeared a powerful, extremist cur- rent in Islamic society called Islamism that challenged Western values and offered fundamentalist Islamic

Published: Sep 14, 2016

Keywords: Saudi Arabia; Middle East; Muslim World; Guerilla Warfare; Palestinian Liberation Organization

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