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The social roots of Hamas go back further than its founding in 1987 and can be found in the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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.”

In failed or weak states; lack of a system – Islam becomes a nationalist discourse when it develops as the vanguard of a popular resistance movement against foreign occupation (Hamas, Hizbullah, Afghan mujahideen, etc…)

Al-Qaeda as Peter Bergen puts it, “is as much a creation of globalization as a response to it.”

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 government agency in Turkey that conducts strict regulation of all religious activity is named: The Diyanet

Radical Islamism has an emphasis on violent struggle (jihad) as the primary or even the exclusively legitimate method for the pursuit of political change.

This group believes that Ali, Prophet Muhammad’s descendant should be the next leader of Islam

The Justice and Development Party (PJD) is a political party in Morocco that advocates for political Islam. It was the ruling party of Morocco from 2011 to 2021.

There is no difference between those Islamist movements that emphasize “jihad” and those that pursue politics through non-violent, even democratic means.