Samuel Huntington

Huntington's moment belongs to geopolitical discourse in the wake of 9/11, but the world-historical moment, as the years since 9/11 have demonstrated, belongs to the culture of Islamist militias. Contemporary militant Islam is not a political or religious singularity, and its narrative is an evolving one. However, in its various organizational configurations around the world--al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Jamaah Islam (Jemaiah Islamiyah), etc.--it has proven to be far more cohesive than fractured. Its number of highly motivated adherents is growing, not weakening, and they have been undeniably effective in altering political discourse and behavior by way of what the

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. from nuclear winter to global warming" (End d 3-4). Notably not on the list is Islamic fundamentalism, though it is cited in the text. Further, in answer to critics of his end-of-history thesis, Fukuyama made a project of explaining Islamic fundamentalism in what must be now seen as a markedly unprescient way: Islamic fundamentalism is not only a competitor to liberalism in the Islamic world, it has won a clear-cut victory over liberalism in many countries. And yet, for all of Islam's pretensions of being a universal religion, fundamentalism has had virtually no appeal outside of communities that were not Muslim to begin with. It threatens the liberalism of the West only insofar as countries like France and West Germany have to deal with difficult-to-assimilate immigrant populations, or when those countries clash with Islamic groups on a national or subnational level (i.e., terrorism) (Fukuyama 99). In that answering essay, Fukuyama goes on to say that Islamic fundamentalism (he appears to be thinking of Iran's regime) is bound to fail because it cannot find Western adherents and therefore is no match for Western liberalism. That logic fails to capture that madrasas ideology finds Western liberalism irrelevant to pursuit of
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