“…Overall, the activities and ideologies of these groups have been met with much resistance by the mainstream society. Major issues have been revived and cause growing concern throughout the country, including radicalism, integrism, separatism, and terrorism (see Cakar, 1996;Esposito, 2002;Flores, 1993;Juergensmeyer, 2000;Kazemzadeh, 1998;Kramer, 2000;Sayari & Hoffman, 1991).…”