Getting financial and military support from the US during the cold war gave it a boost without a doubt but it did not invent these idea. Sayyid Qotb was one of the heads of the Muslim Brotherhood during the 50s (before the US support) and the brotherhood itself has been around for over 80 years now so again before the cold war. Wahhabism as the guy in the video rightly notes was from the previous decade and is very healthy in Saudi Arabia today.
Usually fundamentalism becomes popular in time of great peril. It happened before around the end of the Abbasid empire when Gengis Khan's mongols were destroying the muslim empire. Thats the environment Ibn Taymiya wrote in and he advocated a return to fundamentalism and his writings inspired Qotb centuries later and is still inspiring Jihadis to this day.
There will always be a popular return to fundamentalism which is really taking the example of the prophet from the Sunna (hadiths and Biographies). When things turn sour people think its God's punishment or they are weak because they strayed from the path god ordained. They then try to go back to that righteous path and fall onto the lap of the old texts. Any reform of Islam will be temporary. As soon as big trouble strikes a return to fundamentalism will become popular again. The only point of no return is to leave Islam altogether. Thats the only semi-permanent solution.
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Internal Jihad and external Jihad are both in the Sunni tradition and have firm footing in the core sunni texts.. Internal Jihad is to work on disciplining oneself while external Jihad is .. external Jihad.
Usually fundamentalism becomes popular in time of great peril. It happened before around the end of the Abbasid empire when Gengis Khan's mongols were destroying the muslim empire. Thats the environment Ibn Taymiya wrote in and he advocated a return to fundamentalism and his writings inspired Qotb centuries later and is still inspiring Jihadis to this day.
There will always be a popular return to fundamentalism which is really taking the example of the prophet from the Sunna (hadiths and Biographies). When things turn sour people think its God's punishment or they are weak because they strayed from the path god ordained. They then try to go back to that righteous path and fall onto the lap of the old texts. Any reform of Islam will be temporary. As soon as big trouble strikes a return to fundamentalism will become popular again. The only point of no return is to leave Islam altogether. Thats the only semi-permanent solution.
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Internal Jihad and external Jihad are both in the Sunni tradition and have firm footing in the core sunni texts.. Internal Jihad is to work on disciplining oneself while external Jihad is .. external Jihad.
