Epilogue

Abstract

Is ‘militant Islam’, meaning Islamic fundamentalism, really an unstoppable juggernaut, an immediate threat to both moderate Muslim governments and Western ones? Can it be halted, or defeated? Or will it eventually burn itself out, only to be remembered as a hiccup in history? Its record during the past decade and a half is impressive, bloody and awe-inspiring. Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution in Iran, which overturned a secular government, set the trend, giving encouragement, inspiration and some help to similar movements in other Islamic countries through its Iranian Connection.