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The Challenge of Radical Islam

1993; Council on Foreign Relations; Volume: 72; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/20045523

2327-7793

Judith Miller,

North African History and Literature

Among the participants were Rashid al-Ghannoushi, the exiled leader and articulate spokesman of al-Nahda, Tunisia's Islamic opposition movement; Ibrahim Shukri, a chief of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt; Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the radical militant leader of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Hezb-i Islami faction; Abassi Madani, then one of the two leaders of Algeria's ascendant Islamic Salvation Front (fis); and, of course, a high-ranking delegate from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Also present were prominent Arab leftist and nationalist figures, such as Georges Habash, the Christian head of the radical secular Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The host was Hassan al-Turabi, the spiritual chief and master mind of Sudan's Islamic military government, who supervised the effort to draft a plan of action for defying the tyrannical West.