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Islamic fundamentalism

  • Jerry Falwell
    In fundamentalism: Islamic fundamentalism

    …great deal of attention in the West after the Iranian Revolution of 1978–79—which deposed Iran’s ruler, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919–80), and established an Islamic republic—and especially after the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001 by al-Qaeda, an international Islamist terrorist network. The spectacular nature of these…

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