ABOUT THE BOOK
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September 11, 2001 is
generally perceived as the day when the world split between two civilizations
comprising of the Christian West and the Islamic world. The cracks, leading to
the split however, had started to appear much earlier. From the mid-1970 onwards
pan-Islamic fundamentalist movements were gaining in strength in most Muslim
countries stretching from Algeria to Iran and the Gulf. This upsurge of
violence is explained as not as the result of clash of civilization, as the
bloodiest conflicts have occurred not between Muslim groups or states and the
West but within the Muslim world itself. This holds true for the interstate
conflict such as the terrorism of the Algerian Islamists against their fellow
citizens or the present ongoing sectarian strife in Iraq and the internecine
war in Afghanistan. It applies to the assassination attempts, successful and
unsuccessful, against the Arab and Muslim leaders.
ABOUT Author
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Syed Viqar Salahuddin
graduated as a Chemical Engineer from the University of New Mexico in the U.S.
in 1967. He has worked in the Oil and Gas sectors with the affiliates of Exxon
and Shell in South Asia and the Far East, in various assignments, which included
appointments as Chief Executive Officer of an Oil Refinery and a Liquid
Petroleum Gas Marketing company. He retired in 2006 after a work tenure
extending over 39 years.