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Sat 10 Nov, 2007 09:39 am
This is an important book if you want to learn how and why extremists took over Islam. The three factions of Islam that have been fighting for centuries are The Mystics, The Literalists, and the Modernists. The Mystics and Modernists dominated Islam for centuries. All that changed when the Literalists (including al Qaida) started fighting what they considered the Western World's attack on Islam. U.S. and other Western country foreign policies helped the Literalists to dominate Islam. ---BBB
He was interviewed on NPR. I liked what he had to say, though I can't tell you what it was right now. Thanks for jogging my memory, BBB.
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