To many observers, it appeared that the Arab revolutions had created an appropriate atmosphere for the launch of a process to stop the tide of radical Islamic fundamentalism in the Arab states, in particular Al Qaeda and its various branches and affiliates. This is based on the consideration that these peaceful revolutions proved beyond any reasonable doubt the failure of Jihadi and Al Qaeda ideology, after they were able to achieve in a short period of time what radical Islamist movements had failed to do over a period of 30 years from changing some of the Arab regimes, something that had eluded the persistent and enduring efforts of these movements. The likelihood of this proposal’s validity is strengthened by the series of powerful blows directed at Al Qaeda before the Arab revolutions, represented in ideological reviews that were carried out by a number of Jihadi currents in the Arab region. They began from Egypt at the hands of Al-Gama’a AlIslamiyya, followed by reviews from the Egyptian Islamic Jihad movement, and then various other reviews from radical Jihadi organizations and movements in a number of other countries.
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