ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how the permissive willingness of the United States to overlook and tacitly accept horrendous domestic repression against democracy and Islam within the Ferghana Valley states was likely to cause an increase in radical Islamist groups. Of all the groups operating within the valley it is the Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT). An international movement long stationed in Ferghana, HT is easily the most famous fundamentalist Islamic organization presently in Central Asia. In 1979 the American and British intelligence services agreed that terrorism was the use of force against societal/civilian interests for the realization of political purposes. Muslims must understand that this use of the term fundamentalism is a political tool. Fostering Fundamentalism's point simply places the blame for that perception on people's failure to rectify their short-term hypocrisy in favor of their long-term security interests that can be established through true democratic engagement.
