The End Of History Blog Killers in the Name of God

By the 1980s nationalism and political philosophies had failed the former Islamic world of the Middle East. Into this vacuum stepped Islamic extremist ideologies pushed in different manners by the rulers of the Shia and Sunni branches of Islam. This is part 3 in JB Shreve and the End of History's series on the history of Islamic extremism - Killers in the Name of God.