Chapter I
THE ISLAMIC WORLD TODAY
R E F E R E N C E S

1 Dr. Anis Alam, Is fundamentalism a threat to West? - Frontier Post, Peshawar - 12.7.1992

2 The regimes, particularly those friendly to the United States, are not very strong politically and very often the United States has to prop them up, knowing full well that they are autocratic. Such regimes have been designated in a recent work as Friendly Tyrants. "The most important of all Friendly Tyrants for the United States is Mexico .... Washington would undoubtedly be prepared to do much more to keep a Friendly Power in power there than elsewhere if the alternative were viewed as being much worse from the perspective of US interests. Certainly it would be more willing to keep an unfriendly tyrant from taking power there than anywhere else in the world." When one considers that the Persian Gulf supplies nearly 60 to 70 percent of Japan's oil needs, over 50 percent of Europe's and above all, that the mounting debts of the United States are financed by the credit from Japan and Germany, one can see that perhaps the Gulf region and particularly Saudi Arabia is a close second, if not as vital, to the security of the United States as Mexico. [Khalid bin Sayeed, Western Dominance and Political Islam - Oxford University Press, Karachi, p-22]

3 M. B. Naqvi, Third World and realpolitik - Dawn 29.4.1996

4 Jochen Hippler, The Next Threat: Western Perceptions of Islam, p-123

5 Ibid. p-12

6 Ibid. p-122,3

7 Dr. Ziaul Haq, Islamic Fundamentalism - Dawn 14.2.1992

8 Oliver Roy, The Fairluer of Plotical Islam, p-18-19

9 Ibid. p-52

10 Ibid.

11 Khalif Bin Sayeed, op. cite., p-1

12 Dr. Maqbool Ahmad Bhatty - Muslim world and new global order - Dawn 8.4.1994

13 Dr. R. T. Abed, Islamic Fundamentalism: a new political mythology? Weekly Middle East International - London 4.3.1994

14 Ibid.

15 Ibid.