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    Khomeini's dicta may seem irrelevant now that he has long been

    dead, but his words have actually gained in influence since his demise.

    Early in the '90s, Iraq's humiliation in the Gulf War undermined the

    credibility of the secular Moslem regimes, leaving a power vacuum

    into which Fundamentalism leaped.46  There are currently roughly one

    100,000,000 Islamic fundamentalists (rechristened "Islamic revivalists"

    by some scholars47).  Activists among them, employing the slogan

    "Africa for Islam," are making diligent--and often violent--efforts to

    seize power in numerous sub-Saharan states.48   They have gained

    sufficient favor with South Africa's ANC that Nelson Mandela, in a

    1992 visit to Teheran, told the Iranians that Africa must be reshaped

    along the lines of the Iranian revolution.49    (Ironically,  when  South

    African leader Bishop Desmond Tutu gave a speech to a Palestinian

    crowd in 1989 lauding Palestinian interests, he failed to realize that the

    Arabic banners carried by his listeners read "On Saturday We Will Kill

    the Jews, on Sunday We Will Kill the Christians!")50

    Khomeini-style fundamentalists have become vigorous political

    forces in areas like China's Xinjiang region (where as of 1994, Beijing

    officials were seriously concerned that the area's inhabitants,

    influenced by propaganda from Iran, would attempt to break away

    and found a fundamentalist Islamic republic).51      Islamic

    fundamentalists have been involved in the Indian state of Kashmir's

    vicious civil war.52  They've been active in Malaysia,53 Thailand (where

    Moslem guerilla forces were fighting in 1993),54 and the Sudan55 (where

    an Iranian-backed fundamentalist regime is engaged in a campaign to

    subjugate, exterminate or--according to the United Nations

    International Labor Organization--literally enslave the black Christians

    and animists in the southern region of the country).56  Followers of

    Khomeini have been moving aggressively in Algeria,57 Jordan,58

    Tunisia,59 Lebanon, Kuwait,60 Pakistan,61 Afghanistan, Azerbaijan,

    Turkmenistan (where by 1992 posters and portraits of the ayatollah

    had become a particularly strong sales item in local stores),62 France,63

    and, according to Greek Defense Minister Ioannis Varvitsiotes and the

    University of Belgrade's Dragoljub R. Zivojinovic, Czechoslovakia,

    Albania and Yugoslavia.64  In many of these cases, fundamentalists are

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