Al-Qaeda formed in the late 80's as a more radical response to growing secularism in the world. Their purpose was to use violence and terrorism to destroy modernism and non-traditional values that have developed in the past half a century. Al-Qaeda is influenced by the works of Sayyid Qutb, an Islamic Egyptian who published an Islamic manifest detailing Islam's what Islam needed to do to combat the new values of modernism that was appearing in the world during the 1950's.
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