The following statement was written by _____________________…

The following statement was written by ________________________in the journal article titled, “Hamas and the Transformation of Political Islam in Palestine”: “Radical Islam emerged not because people were opposed to political and economic change but they were continuously denied it.”

According to Ottaway and Abdellatif: Islamist precepts origi…

According to Ottaway and Abdellatif: Islamist precepts originally did not aim at subjugating women but were distorted by social and cultural norms that ante-dates Islam and persisted despite the spread of Islam.  Struggle to restore Islam to its original form is the struggle for women’s rights.

The AKP political party in Turkey was founded in 2001 and it…

The AKP political party in Turkey was founded in 2001 and it included new urban class solidarity-based groups with rural origins and a shared Islamic ethos.  These groups had been culturally and economically excluded by the Kemalist elite. [Founded in 2001 by members of a number of existing conservative parties, the party has won pluralities in the five most recent legislative elections, those of 2002, 2007, 2011, June 2015, and November 2015.]