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Since I have only a textbook knowledge of Islam, I have to rely on other scholars and researchers for any insight into whatever connection there may be between Islam and Islamic terrorism.
While terrorism - even in the form of suicide attacks - is not an Islamic
phenomenon by definition, it cannot be ignored that the lion's share of terrorist acts and the most devastating of them in recent years have been perpetrated in the name of Islam. This fact has sparked a fundamental debate both in the West
and within the Muslim world regarding the link between these acts and the teachings of Islam. Most Western analysts are hesitant to identify
such acts with the bona fide teachings of one of the world's great religions and prefer to view them as a perversion of a religion that is essentially
peace-loving and tolerant.
Modern Islamic terrorism is a natural offshoot of twentieth-century Islamic fundamentalism. The "Islamic Movement" emerged in the Arab world and British-ruled India......

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