e word of God. Within Islam the definition of fundamentalism is based off of the belief is some old form of religion and that of a holy book, which Muslims refer to as the Koran given to them by god through Mohammed. Like Christianity modern Islam wishes to see a return to government with a religious foundation, but unlike Christianity in the US Muslims wish to see the government practically run by the basic Islamic law and that of the Koran. Many Muslims see todays so called crisis of Islam as the willingness to follow the false ideas of the western world, and that what is needed is a reassertion of traditional values. From this point of view, the crisis of Islam is seen as the result of the corruption of nominally Muslim governments and the creeping growth of secularism and Western capitalist influence on the Muslim world. Frequently those who argue in this way use violence in the cause of overthrowing unjust and what they see as corrupt governments. This very approach is what defines Islamic Fundamentalism.Modern Islam in this idea goes back centuries. Ibn Taymoyya is often cited since he argued for a purification of Islam from what he considered corruptions which had entered in his day. Ibn Taymiyya influenced later figures such as Muhammad In Abd al-Wahhab, the father of Wahhabi, and it is maybe ironic that the Saudi kingdom which came to power as a result of Wahhabi in Arabia is now one of the most prominent targets of the charge of corruption and of serving as a vehicle for western influence in the Islamic world. With the idea of breaking away from western influence, the first conventional Islamic organization started with the creation of the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1920s. The founder of the brotherhood, Hassen al Banna believed that the Islamic world needed to be cleansed and purified of western influence and that a restored faith must be placed in the center of the nation. He also believed that the sharia, or divine law...
