Why has the Jehadist Islamic movement increasing become stronger in the Middle East since the late 1980s?

The Islamic Jihadist Movement in the Middle East

The Key Factors Feeding the Continued Fanaticism in its Core since the Late 1980s

INTRODUCTION

A Jihadist , as viewed through a non-Muslim eye , takes on a very harsh image : that of a religious fanatic with a bomb strapped to his body , or a faceless zealot , figuratively and literally , wreathed in a miasma of blood and gore . While this graphic image of the Islamic Jihadist lacks depth at best and intellectual honesty at worst , the reality is that this is how the ordinary non-Islamic

people - the so-called infidels and non-believers ' - see a Jihadist . Which now begs this question : if a Jihadist is generally perceived as such , what is fueling this kind of Islamic extremism , or what is feeding the fire in the heart of the Islamic Jihadist movement , specifically in the Middle East , that nourishes and sustains its growth

The phenomenon of the jihad , coupled with the idea of self-sacrifice , is one that is not easy to comprehend . This is especially more difficult to understand when juxtaposed with the essence of the Jihadist persona that of violence , alongside that of the ultimate goal of the global jihadist movement which is to overthrow secular governments and replace them with Islamist states . But knowing that jihadism is not only deeply rooted in religion but also enters the political realm ' and that their specific goal , the reestablishment of a caliphate or unified Muslim state that would do away with present state bs in the Middle...