The reasons behind Islamic fundamentalism?

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What are the true reasons behind Islamic fundamentalism? IMO they are :

i) The fact of "western" perversions of Islamic culture
ii) A certain measure of xenophobia of non-Islamic mores, and norms.
iii) A certain intolerance of others views, and basing there lives on the capitalist/socialist rather than Islamic codes.
iv) The systematic rape of the ME by the western powers.
v) The collapse of the Islamic empire.
vi) The resistance against perceived injusitices done by non-Mulsim nations on muslim nations. (i.e India/ Kashmir, Russia/Checnya).
vii) Animosty to perceieved western economic and political success.

That is what I think Islamic fundamentalism is drivien by. Let me hear what u think?
 
Someday ...

Someday I will finish reading Riesebrodt's Pious Passions. It's just incredibly dry, and it turns out most of the information in the Protestant comparative is stuff I already know, but I need to drag my ass through it so I can figure out the context of his presentation on Islamic fundamentalism.

Funny thing is that my daughter is not an encroachment on my reading time. It's her mother. Theoretically, Riesbrodt's book should be two weekends worth of careful reading. Then again, rearranging stuff I already knew into a specific order is why it took me ten years to bother finishing the Communist Manifesto.

But ... I'll offer that route when I complete it. In the meantime, my first perusal of your list says it's general but I can't object. Remember, though, the American-conservative tactic of playing a game of "who started it?" until you rifle all the history and demonstratively show who started it, at which time you will be criticized for your obsession with minutiae. Hold fast for the storm ;)

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Tiassa :cool:
 
Originally posted by nico
What are the true reasons behind Islamic fundamentalism? IMO they are :

i) The fact of "western" perversions of Islamic culture
ii) A certain measure of xenophobia of non-Islamic mores, and norms.
iii) A certain intolerance of others views, and basing there lives on the capitalist/socialist rather than Islamic codes.
iv) The systematic rape of the ME by the western powers.
v) The collapse of the Islamic empire.
vi) The resistance against perceived injusitices done by non-Mulsim nations on muslim nations. (i.e India/ Kashmir, Russia/Checnya).
vii) Animosty to perceieved western economic and political success.

That is what I think Islamic fundamentalism is drivien by. Let me hear what u think?
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Nico,

Why is that all of your reasons were external factors..? How can you let the internal factors off the hook..?
 
Everneo - I think it's a more complex issue than that

I don't think it has to do with letting the internal factors off the hook, but rather we need to identify the external stimuli in order to compare the nature of the internal reaction.

On a related note, take a look around at the level of Sciforums' debate pertaining to the internal--simplistic, presumptory, and openly refusing to acknowledge the external.

If done properly, the present examination can help shed some light on the internal factors. It's not a matter of letting them off the hook. It's a matter of trying to establish the context of the framework in which they operate.

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Tiassa :cool:
 
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