Islamic Fundamentalism

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evivalists, calling for a return to islamic ideals), the evangelical axe (on one hand the ones who believed that religion is a personal matter, and on the other, the ones who believed that Allah wants the whole world to be a Muslim state) and the political axe( the non-activists and the fundamentalists, who believed in the literal interpretation of the Koran calling for militant action and terrorism). At first, these ideologies were not obvious at all, since this new trend of opposition manifested itself at grass-roots level, taking a humanitarian form in health care, religious and cultural education, but it started to grow after the Six Day War in 1967 won by Israel, a moment in which the collapse of a number of nationalist and socialist groups were blamed for the terrible loss. In 1979, Shah Mohammad Reza Pehlavi of Iran is overthrown by a popular revolt led by a Muslim cleric called Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who, by establishing a theocracy, became the ruler of an established ideology “There is not a single topic of human life for which...