Terror, Islam, and Democracy

Issue Date April 2002
Volume 13
Issue 2
Page Numbers 5-20
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Although Islamist terror groups invoke a host of religious references, the real source of their ideas is not the Koran but rather Leninism, fascism, and other strains of twentieth-century thought that exalt totalitarian violence.