The Origins of Violent Islamism. Can the “political Islam” be seen as a cause for violent religious extremism in the Middle East?

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 1,0, University of Windsor (Faculty of History), course: Introduction to the Arab culture, language: English, abstract: Violent religious extremism is to be found nearly everywhere in human history. Yet, it seems today, as if the Arab world – and most lately Syria – would be the 'hub' of religiously m...