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To: kumar who wrote (58435)	11/22/2002 11:40:29 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"Islam" is one of the world's three major monotheistic religions, which of course has meant, and means different things at different times to different people. It comes in different flavors: Sunni, Shia, Sufi, etc. "Islamism", aka Militant Islam, is a movement that combines totalitarian politics with an intolerant fundamentalist style of Islam - Shia for Khomenei's Iran, Wahabbi for Qutb, Bin Laden, Zawahari, Mullah Omar, etc. Its program is anti-modern and anti-Western and includes imposing a fundamentalist version of Sharia as the law of the land. Islamist regimes: Iran (for now), Afghanistan under the Taliban, Sudan, and northern Nigeria. Saudi Arabia is has made its own devils bargain with Islamism; the House of Saud imposes on the people but exempts itself from the rules.