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American Foreign Policy and Islamic Renewal
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By Abdeslam M. Maghraoui
This chapter discusses modernist Muslim networks and examines possible US policies to support them in their struggle for a renewal of Islam. The author argues that the US still lacks an integrated and sustainable strategy to confront religious extremism in the Muslim world and that policymakers have failed to recognize that the challenge is not only a conflict between parts of the Muslim world and the West, but also involves ideological shifts within the Muslim world. He concludes that the US strategy should be to support the renewal movement, which could reform Islam and mobilize Muslim constituencies against religious extremism.