Fundamentally different fundamentalists

As the long civil war in Syria has shown, Islamist groups do not easily form any kind of united front. That was one reason the Assad regime could last for decades. People in western countries often do not understand how complex the phenomenon we call Islamism actually is. Here is a short primer on the three principle currents of Islamist ideologies and their inner divisions.

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