What is Islamic fundamentalism? I consider myself a student of Islamic history and have practiced Islam for 60odd years have read and understand the Koran and consider it just like the Bible and the Torah as the word of God. What is this “march of Islamic fundamentalism” to which you refer (news article Jan.1)? Linow of Christian fundamentalist priests but Islam does not allow any kind of priest hood fundamental or otherwise.
Is it possible that now that the United States is no longer impressed with the cry of “a read under every bed” some illegitimate and corrupt ruler in the Islamic world would have us believe that heir deprived and angry masses (some of them bearded) who are trying to regain their political will are the enemies of the only super power in this post-cold-war world?
“Is it also possible that nowhere in our think tanks and Government agencies doe’s historical awareness of the Islamic world exon beyond a generation or two? We Americans thus tend to depend on advice from colonial Britain and France and expansionist regimes in New Delhi and Tel Aviv all of which have their own regional agendas.
Ahmed Sheikh President Kashmir Association of North America Chicago
Article extracted from this publication >> February 7, 1992
