ABSTRACT
Islamic fundamentalism has become a major movement in all Muslim countries, supported by millions of believers in the Koran and practised in the mosques and the religious schools. The disturbing complicity between fundamentalism and post-modernity is to blame. Modern Islamic terrorism finds its special intellectual sources within the second type of Islamic fundamentalism, where the standard interpretations of radical Islamism are propagated. Islamic fundamentalism, as well as Islamic terrorism, is very much at odds with the general development towards a post-modern society. Bruno Etienne adds, concerning the “transfer of enthusiasm”, that Islamism ensures human rights toward an Islamic revolution which, instead of modernising Islam as non-religious modernists wish, Islamises modernity. The first reformist kind of Islamic fundamentalism has given place to the second kind of radical Islamism, which now in a third form tends towards terrorism.
