Olivier Roy and Gilles Kepel: the new with the old

Economist.com | Islam and the West

A review of ‘the war for mulsim minds: Islam and the West’ by Gilles Kepel and of ‘Globalised Islam’ by Olivier Roy, two leading French Islam experts.
” At the heart of both works is an understanding of a central paradox: in all its varieties, whether political, pietistic or warlike, Muslim neo-fundamentalism is an essentially modern phenomenon. The more stridently it calls for a return to the �old-time� religion of 1,400 years ago, with all later additions removed, the more contemporary this movement looks.”