Islamic fundamentalism : the new global threat / by Mohammad Mohaddessin

"With a new introduction and updated appendix"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-190) and index

Foreword / Georgie Anne Geyer -- Preface / Davina Miller -- Introduction: In the Eye of the Storm -- I. Dogmatism versus Democracy: A Brief History of Fundamentalism -- II. The Pillars of the Mullahs' Rule -- III. The Post-Khomeini Regime -- IV. "Mother of All Islamic Lands": The Mullahs' Foreign Policy -- V. Fertile Grounds for Fundamentalism -- VI. The Iran-Iraq War -- VII. Arms of the Octopus: Exporting Fundamentalism to Central Asia -- VIII. Fundamentalism in the Arab World -- IX. An "International Islamic Army" -- X. Terrorism: Iran's Foreign Policy Instrument -- XI. The Mullahs and Middle East Peace -- XII. Armed to the Teeth -- XIII. Crisis from All Sides: Inside the Mullahs' Regime -- XIV. The Search for a Solution -- XV. Modern, Democratic Islam: Antithesis to Fundamentalism.

This book is an affirmation of the wisdom of the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad. It describes, however, the dire effects of fundamentalism fed by the frenzy of the ayatollahs of Iran, beginning with Khomeini. The octopus of fundamentalism stretches its tentacles into vulnerable places from Central Asia to the Atlantic coast of Africa, from New York to Cairo. Its heart beats in Tehran, where Khomeini's heirs misuse petro-dollars and the profound religious beliefs of the Muslim world to export Khomeiniism, the most destructive and retrogressive form of religious fundamentalism. Poised to strike at the heart of Khomeiniism in Iran is a resistance movement whose pivotal force, the People's Mojahedin, are Shiite Muslims, but with a democratic and nationalistic orientation.