A closer look, however, finds that Islamists are hardly model Moslems.
Preoccupied with gaining power (and succeeding in several countries - such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Sudan), they often show more talent at politics than at living by Islam's precepts. In fact, Islamists, for all their ostentatious piety, tend to be severely deficient as believers.
Nor are Islamists above petty theft. As the two men who carried out the suicide attack on the USS Cole in October 2000 prepared for their operation, they knew they would not be returning to their rented living quarters, so they cheated their Yemeni landlord out of the last month's rent. 'I was angry,' commented their landlord, adding almost unnecessarily: 'There was nothing Islamic in that.'"
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An old article but certainly still relevant...
