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Explaining Islamic Terror
(Jerusalem Post) Daniel Pipes - If the Koran causes terrorism, how does one explain the 1960s, when militant Islamic violence barely existed? Holy books have vast importance, but do not create the immediate context of action. Instead of the Koran, I urge anyone wanting to study militant Islam and the violence it inspires to understand such phenomena as the Wahhabi movement, the Khomeini revolution, and al-Qaeda. Muslim history, not Islamic theology, explains how we got here, and hints at what might come next.