PSC 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Islamic Fundamentalism, Pan-Islamism, River Nadder
28 Aug 2016
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Taliban regime was removed from power but social movement has been going on since. More moderate ones still opposed to regime, but adopting new ways in terms of their political and social ideology. There are other factions that are more conservative, want to establish a fully islamic regime by the taliban. Recently several conferences in qatar, persian gulf region where taliban was invited. Several nations in middle east, ie saudi government and qatar regime still have close relations with taliban. Pakistan and afghanistan where their identity has been created in the name of. Islam: in terms of national unity, islam has sometimes been used as nationalism, particularly afghanistan, afghanistan has been a mostly tribal society. Hazara 10% persian speaking, sunnis from mongol decent. With regard to afghanistan, it has witnessed rise of islamism over last several decades, since 1980s islam as fundamentalist opposition movement has become very pronounced.
