International Conference: Current Security Challenges for the Western Balkan Region Addressed by Means of Joint Responsibility and Cooperation managed to transform islam as a religion into a Nevertheless, the stringent logic of the forceful political power: Seyyid Abu l-A'la ideological framework provided a solid basis for Moudoodi(1903-1979), an Indo-Pakistani their activities as long as the preconditions journalist and thinker and Seyyid Qutb(1906­prevailed to which they could apply their 1966) who was of a similar profession as „revolutionary“ interpretation. On the other hand, Moudoodi. Among his numerous works as an agenda it was exible enough to refer to „Ma'alim -t-tariq“(„Milestones“) is such different realities existing in the Middle outstanding when one looks for a Muslim East, North and Subsaharan Africa, Indonesia, parallel to Lenin in terms of ideological Central Asia, the Balkans and, during the last consistency and mobilizing force. While using a years, even in the Muslim communities within completely different terminology, the way from Western countries. ousting an illegitimate government and ghting a sinful(as apostate) society to make it abide by 2) Over time the phenomenon has adopted a the sovereignty of Allah while guided by a global dimension. This indicates that there is a religious avantgarde, very much resembles the widespread perception among numerous way from a bourgeois to the classless society Muslim societies that the conditions under guided by the Communist Party. The„correct which they are living are lacking basic 9 consciousness“ in reading historical processes is substituted by the„correct reading of Coran“. requirements of a societal, political and economic order in accordance with their belief. This is meant to read the Coran in a way which As in every society the majority of citizens try to enables the believer to change the society in come to grips through peaceful channels, but a order to establish„hakimiyyat Allah“, god's minority resorts to an ideology which in sovereignty. Those who achieve this reading extremis permits militant struggle. Referring to belong to the Islamic Avantgard, the„Party of the rst observation above, Islam is being made god“, Hizb Allah. a resource for change. Thus, Qutb succeeded in turning islamic religion into an ideology. In contrast to Lenin, however, he never experienced the revolutionary political and societal changes he had anticipated. Instead, innumerous followers„rened“ Qutb's general framework into an agenda of revolutionizing their respective societies. The notion of„jihad“ was at its center, not only allowing, but making killing of those who would stand in the way of rendering societies truly „islamic compulsory“. From the beginning, there were different interpretations of the„true“ Islam; this meant that the movement has never been a homogenious one, but split into numerous groups. That was the reason why they not only fought the„indels“ within their own societies or in the West, but equally each other. Once being asked what the reason is for the upsurge of violence in the Islamic world, former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami answered that it is the feeling of inferiority. Single acts of violence were perpetrated in the 70ies in Egypt by an organization called„at-takr wa-l-higra“; rapidly violence spread out to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 80ies and to Algeria and Egypt in the 90ies. During this decade it could equally be observed in the Balkans during the Bosnian war and in Chechnya. After September 11th, and in the course of the„war on terrorism“ it