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Fundamentalist Movements (Modernity (Fundamentalist movements usually…
Fundamentalist Movements
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Taleban
Founded by Mullah Omar after the withdrawal of the Soviet army from Afghanistan in 1989, which created a political vacuum that the Taliban was able to fill
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Al Qaeda
1979: Osama bin Laden became involved in the Afghan resistance and fought on the side of the Mujahideen
Bin Laden began to ferment revolutions in other parts of the world, particularly in Sudan
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Modernity
Fundamentalist movements usually presented as anti-modern; but they are concerned with the struggle of control over modernity
The views of radical Islamist groups are as much shaped by Western ideology as by their religious beliefs
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With the shift of conventional warfare to asymmetric warfare the techniques and technologies that terrorists use are very modern
To be successful, 'fundamentalist' movements, since they operate in a modern world, need to adapt and take advantage of modernity in order to thrive
Modern terrorism relies heavily on modern technology; both modern terror and modern technology are diffusive, decentralised, universal, interactive, low cost and chaotic in their respective structures
The use of terror by Islamist organizations has very little to do with traditional Islam, but is more related to asymmetric warfare used by modern revolutionary movements.
Even though Islamists define themselves as anti- modern, the way they wage war is evidently a by-product of the late modern globalization