undamentalism rests on the idea of pan-Islamist rather than nation-state governance, which means that instability is its fundamental policy. White characterizes it as formally and bureaucratically organized--for example possessed of a "commando wing" consisting of training, operations, and intelligence directed chiefly at Israeli military personnel but also valorizing suicide bombings and other essays into political instability. Shadid draws a distinction between the original Muslim Brotherhood adherence to reform from within, together with its "quietism" regarding the Israeli occupation, and the decision of Hamas organizers to begin "building an assertive, engaged alternative to the state--economically, politically and morally" (Shadid, 2001, p. 118).
Pan-Islam is even more amplified by the emergence of Osama bin Ladin. Bin Ladin, a wealthy engineer, was inspired in Afghanistan during the Russian occupation by the pious pan-Islamism of Sheik Abdullah Azzam. When returning to his home and business in Saudi Arabia in the late 1980s, bin Ladin was ever m
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