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Intel - Terrorism
Abul Ala Mawdudi

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All others we monitor."

• The most prominent Pakistani fundamentalist, the late Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi, said, in no uncertain terms, that in his view Islam and democracy are profoundly at odds, and in fact irreconcilable.
  [source: Challenge of Fundamentalism, p. 28]

• In his book Islam and Modern Civilization, Mawdudi puts it bluntly: "I tell you, my fellow Muslims, frankly:...democracy stands in contradiction with your belief...The Islam in which you believe...is utterly different from this dreadful system...There can be no reconciliation between Islam and democracy, not even in minor issues, because they contradict one another in all particulars. Where this system (of democracy) exists we consider Islam to be absent. When Islam comes to power there is no place for this system."
  [source: Challenge of Fundamentalism, p. 187]

• From the Marxist journalist Maulana Mawdudi, the founder of the Pakistani Jamat 
  e-Islami in the 1940s' comes the concept of Islamic revolutionary vanguards, eg 
  the anti-Soviet Jihad warriors fighting against the West and secular Islam.
  [source: Modern Jihad, p. 154]

• [source: Challenge of Fundamentalism, p. 158]

• Nevertheless, it is important that we distinguish between this variety of populist fundamentalism and the totalitarian fundamentalism that Mawdudi and Qutb helped to shape. Mawdudi himself openly pronounced that his visions of Islam and democracy are utterly at odds.
  [source: Challenge of Fundamentalism, p. 177]

• Even though one of the fathers of Islamic fundamentalism, the Pakistani Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi (1903-79), stated in no uncertain terms that his political interpretation of Islam is at odds with democracy, some Western experts on Islam contend that political Islam is an effort to "Islamize democracy." A closer look shows that the fundamentalist notion of din wa dawla and the concept of the Islamic state point clearly to totalitarian political rule. Thus I agree with Jean Francois Revel that Islamic fundamentalism is a major threat to democracy.
  [source: Challenge of Fundamentalism, pp. 77-78]

• With the exception of the Pakistani Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi, most leading ideologues of Islamic fundamentalism are Arab writers. Moreover, the challenge of an Islamic world order evolved first in the Arab Middle East. 
  [source: Challenge of Fundamentalism, p. 50]

• Those who are familiar with the pronouncements of Muslim fundamentalists and have read the writings of Sayyid Qutb and Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi know that this political movement does not arise simply from a nostalgia for past glory, or to foment a political revolt against Western hegemony.
  [source: Challenge of Fundamentalism, p. 15]

• As mentioned earlier, the Egyptian Sayyid Qutb contended that "only Islam" is capable of overtaking the lead from the "sick West" and therefore called for a "jihad world revolution."
  [source: Challenge of Fundamentalism, p. 90] 

• Islamic fundamentalists like their precursor Abu al-A'la al-Mawdudi, for instance, usually argue that God is the only sovereign. Accordingly, the sovereignty of a state must be based on the will of God, for anything else is heresy.
  [source: Challenge of Fundamentalism, p. 175]