Lecture 3: Origin of 911 (I) –
The Islamic Fundamentalist
Worldview
10th February 2003 (Monday)
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Macro Vs Micro Origins
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George W Bush:
Why do they hate us so much?
Macro Origins:
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Long-term Historical Development
Micro Origins:
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Why was 911 arranged that way?
Why did Osama Bin Laden arrange
the attack despite his expectation of
American revenge?
Three Co-circles of 911 Origins
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Within Macro Origins:
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Islamic Fundamentalism
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Clash of Civilizations
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American Perspectives
Ethics (single-sided)
Culture & History
Reality
Culture
Structure of Lecture 3:
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Definition and Origin of Islamic Fundamentalism
America in the Eyes of Islamic Fundamentalists
Major Islamic Fundamentalists Organizations,
including Al-Qaeda
Conclusion – Why do they practice Islamic
Fundamentalism?
PART I
Islamic Fundamentalism:
Definition and Origins
Fundamentalisms
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Return to the Original, the Purist
Format
Fundamentalism Vs Revisionism
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UST Fundamentalism Vs UST
Revisionism
Christian Fundamentalism: Puritanism
Buddhist Fundamentalism
Marxist Fundamentalism: Maoism
Tariq Ali: Clash of Fundamentalisms
Origins of Islamic Fundamentalism
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Origins of Islam
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Origins of Islamic Fundamentalism
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The Doom Side of the Caliphate
Pan-Islamism Vs Nationalism of Islamic
Countries
The Koran Debate
Doom Side of the Caliphate
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Caliph = Islamic Monarch
Caliphate = Regime of the
Islamic Monarch
The first 4 Caliphs
& the “Bad Caliphs”
Arabian Nights: the story
of the 1001 Nights
Primitivism
Pan-Islamism Vs Nationalism
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“Pan-something”: the greatness of “something”
and its exclusivity
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Pan-Islamism
Pan-Chinese Movement
Pan-Slavic Movement
Pan-Americanism
Collapse of the Ottoman Empire (1918)
Colonial Era in the Middle East
Independence of Modern Arabic Countries
Nationalism: theoretical framework of existence
of modern Arabic countries
The Koran Debate
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Status of Mohammad the
Prophet
Iconoclastic Debate
Parallel between Mohammad
and Secular Rulers of Saudi
royalties
The Fundamentalist Structural
Pyramid
Absolutism –
Anarchism –
Primitivism –
The 2-folded Fundamentalism
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Anti-bureaucratism
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Target: Bad governments
(KSA, Kuwait, UAE, Egypt,
Jordan, etc.)
Anti-Americanism
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Target: Powers supporting
the bad governments (USA
and its allies + Israel)
PART II
America in the Eyes of Islamic
Fundamentalists
“The Hubal of the Age”
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1st enemy of Islam:
Paganism (7th
Century)
Hubal, Mecca, KSA
Gulf War (1989-1990)
American Army =
Pagan Hubal?
“Lands of the Crusaders”
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2nd enemy of Islam: Christian Crusade
(Apostates from the West) (11th – 14th
Century)
From Pope Urban II (1095) to Pope
John Paul II (2000)
Saladin the Sultan
George W Bush: “launch the Crusade”
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USA = Christian representative?
Taliban = Islam representatives?
“The Mongol Threat”
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3rd Enemy of Islam:
Mongols (Apostates from
the East) (14th Century)
Genghis Khan
Hulegu Khan
3rd Western Expedition
Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict?
Economic Sanction
against Iraqi People?
Assigned Readings
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Main Text: Michael Doran:
“Somebody Else’s Civil War –
Ideology, Rage, and the Assault
on America” (H&R P.31-52)
Supplementary Text: Tariq Ali:
The Clash of Fundamentalisms.
Chapter 9: The Roots of
Wahhabism. (P.73-78)
PART III
Major Islamic Fundamentalist
Branches
Wahhabism (KSA)
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State religion of KSA after Wahhabi
Agreement between KSA Royalty and Wahhabi
mullahs
Islamic Fundamentalist Training Schools
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Students: Al-Qaeda and Taliban
Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt)
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Agreement with President
Nasser
The Great Purge
Assassination of President
Sadat (1981)
Merge with Al-Qaeda
Islamic Salvation Front (Algeria)
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1992 Algerian Parliamentary
Election
Only Islamic Fundamentalists won
power through democratic means
The Algerian official reaction
The Western reaction
Democracy: the double standard
C.V. of Mr. Osama Bin Laden
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Nationality: KSA
Family: Construction Business.
Rich.
Royal Connection: the
replacement issue in Afghanistan
(1979)
Secular University
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Major: Public Administration
C.V. of Mr. Osama Bin Laden (II)
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Afghan War against
USSR (1980-1989)
Gulf War against USA
(1989-1990)
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Enemy = USA
Founder of Al-Qaeda
Fatwa against USA
911: First Response
or Final Response?
Conclusion
-- Why do people practice
Islamic Fundamentalism?
Why? Why? Why?
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Religious Reasons?
Political Reasons?
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Article 23 in the Islamic
World
Economic Reasons?
The “Heaven Package”
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The Middle Class Paradox of 911 Hijackers
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The 911 Bomber Diary
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Greatest Scary of the Americans
Number of Virgin-wife: 70
Duration of each climax: 24 years
Discontent towards the Current World
How to make the Heaven less
attractive?
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Fight against the Evil?
OR
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Satisfy:
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Religious aspirations?
Political aspirations?
Economic reasons?
Humanitarian reasons?
Imagine – John Lennon
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
Imagine all the people
living for today...
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn’t hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
Imagine no possessions,
I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I’m a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
~~The End~~
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