Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Salah, Shahada, Zakat
12 Feb 2019
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Radical islam and the future dec 8. Islam is a great and true religion peace an truth be with you . Islam and politics: the spread of islam, military success, arabia, middle east, spain, china, west asia, dominated much of world, tolerant, respectful. Contested term: many different interpretations: strain ; effort ; struggle ; striving . For all muslim, religion requires jihad: inner struggle against evil, temptation and an outer struggle against the enemies of the religion: which is greater or lesser, enemies against religion include moderate muslims. Interpreted as a threat as understood by radical islamics. A fifth threat to islam: united states covert intervention, secret operations and military intervention, done to ensure presence of political leaders who would be friendly to american interests. Iraq, iran, syria: united states military attack, since 1980: occupied, invaded, bombed 14 countries. Iran, libya, lebanon, kuwait, iraq, somalia, bosnia, saudi arabia, afghanistan,
