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Peace: The Summum Bonum

13 Is the Islamic concept of peace
different from the typical western

concept of peace?

eace is a secular subject and not a religious one. There
Pis no such thing as ‘Islamic peace’ or ‘western peace’,
because peace is a secular subject.

14 Why whenever Muslim countries are

in crisis, Islamic fundamentalism
immediately flourishes?

risis in a Muslim country leads to flourishing of
CIslamic fundamentalism. This is because since the
time the Palestinian issue gained prominence, Ikhwanul
Muslimeen (the Muslim Brotherhood) has gained a
stronghold in Arab countries. The Muslim Brotherhood
were initially against the West but later they also turned
against their own Arab rulers and tried to dethrone them
because they thought that these rulers were agents of the
West. In order to destabilize the Arab rule, the Muslim
Brotherhood began confronting and clashing with their
rulers. As a result, Arab rulers became very sensitive
towards Islamic movements, as they considered them to
be a form of extremism or fundamentalism whose aim
was to revolt against and de-stabilize the existing rule.

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