Islamic Fundamentalism
Islamic Fundamentalism
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America in a bid to stem the rising tide of
Communism.
Prior to 1991, when the Soviet Union had assumed
the position of a super power, and posed a
continuing threat to America, one of the strategies
adopted by America was to set off the Muslim
fundamentalists against the Communists, because
these fundamentalists were persistently writing and
speaking against Communism as being the enemy
of Islam. America also gave all kinds of help, to the
fundamentalists. It provided them with weapons to
set themselves up against the Soviet Union and
assisted in the dissemination of their literature all
over the world. But this enemy-of-my-enemy-is-a-
friend formula ultimately proved counter-
productive, in that it virtually amounted to
replacing one enemy with another. The waging of
this proxy war turned out to be only very
temporary in its benefits.
Those who at a later stage felt the impact of
extremist fundamentalism, took this to be a case of
violence against them. So they opted for a policy of
gun versus gun. But subsequent events proved this
