The Return to Islam

A specter is haunting Europe—and the world in general: the specter of Islamic fundamentalism. All the world powers have entered unto a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: the pope and the president of Russia, Helmut Kohl and Françors Mitterand, French radicals and German police agents, and of course the CIA and right-wing Israeli politicians.

Beyond semantic quibbles (“fundamentalism” is a deeply Christian term, and has no meaning, or even equivalent, within the Isla...