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The Different Islamisms... Which Are Real, Which are Fake?

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Submitted by gretavo on Mon, 2010-07-26 16:03.

a point that seems clear from this text is that "al Qaeda" is a joke, without any real, significant role in shaping Islamist views, presumably because real muslims aren't as easily swayed by their fake propaganda videos as gullible and/or fearful westerners...

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66468/marc-lynch/veiled-truths

In The Flight of the Intellectuals, Paul Berman argues that it is not violent Islamists who pose the greatest danger to liberal societies in the West but rather their so-called moderate cousins, such as Tariq Ramadan. Such a reading of contemporary Islamism, however, misses the many nuances of the movement and the real battles between reformers and Salafists.

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