Re: Islamic Revivalism - where it began, and where it's headed.
cat-woman:
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that the revival of a fervent, more stringent and politicised Islam, began in the early '70s with the PLO, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, with the intifadah being one of the early causes.
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PLO can not be included in a list of Islamic political organizations, because PLO was founded based on Palestinian nationhood. PLO has had not much to do with Islam.
We also see Hamas mentioned here. But as far as I know, Hamas was founded very recently, probably 10-15 years ago, and not in 70s.
Intifadah was/is the result of secular PLO's failure to achieve anything for Palestinians. Again it is also a comparatively recent phenomenon. It was started in late 80s, not in early 70s.
Except for Muslim Brotherhood, all other organizations mentioned have nothing to do with fervent politicized Islam of 70s.
By the way, Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt is a lot older than early 70s.
In short, above quotation is clearly based on misinformation.