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The Iranian revolution has highlighted one of the principle religious and political developments of our time, the revival of Islamic fundamentalism, from Indonesia to Morocco and from Turkey to central Africa. In the short run it will cause more problems to the West. In the long run, however, it may be more dangerous to the Soviet Union in Muslim Soviet Central Asia.

The western model of modernization, industrialization, and rational bureaucracy, of an agnostic intelligentsia and consumerist masses, has had