Islamic Political Radicalism

As jihadi ideology shifts from articulating a perpetual conflict against the “far enemy” (read: the United States and its allies) and the “near enemy” (read: the United States’ clients) within the Middle East and the wider Muslim world to taking the conflict to the heart of the far enemy in NorthAm...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:11e07a1621a146539bf91fa7800efac62021-12-02T19:23:16ZIslamic Political Radicalism10.35632/ajis.v25i2.14772690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/11e07a1621a146539bf91fa7800efac62008-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1477https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 As jihadi ideology shifts from articulating a perpetual conflict against the “far enemy” (read: the United States and its allies) and the “near enemy” (read: the United States’ clients) within the Middle East and the wider Muslim world to taking the conflict to the heart of the far enemy in NorthAmerica and Western Europe, it is time for academics to take stock of what has happened, how it has happened, and why. The “radicalization” debate, as it is called, tries to ask the pertinent question of why some Muslim male citizens of these “western” states feel so disenchanted, dis-integrated, and alienated from their immediate communities that they can perpetrate such gross acts of violence as the bombings in Madrid in March 2004 and 7/7 in London. The challenge of such violent radicalism (and it is important to qualify it as such, since radicalism traditionally has been a political virtue of the Left demanding change) affects security policy as well as the integrity and dignity of Muslim communities. Tahir Abbas, a reader in sociology at the University of Birmingham and a leading expert on the sociology of Britain’s Muslim communities, has assembled a vibrant interdisciplinary circle of specialists, comprisingMuslim and non-Muslim academics and activists, to tackle this question. The collection brings together studies in political science, political sociology (the primary focus for the debate on radicalism), anthropology, psychology, criminology, and related disciplines.The contributors concentrate on Britain, albeit within a European context, and thus this book might be of value for those studying Islamismin otherMuslim-minority contexts (particularly the United States) and even in Muslim-majority contexts as a base of comparison ... Sajjad H. RizviInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 25, Iss 2 (2008)
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description As jihadi ideology shifts from articulating a perpetual conflict against the “far enemy” (read: the United States and its allies) and the “near enemy” (read: the United States’ clients) within the Middle East and the wider Muslim world to taking the conflict to the heart of the far enemy in NorthAmerica and Western Europe, it is time for academics to take stock of what has happened, how it has happened, and why. The “radicalization” debate, as it is called, tries to ask the pertinent question of why some Muslim male citizens of these “western” states feel so disenchanted, dis-integrated, and alienated from their immediate communities that they can perpetrate such gross acts of violence as the bombings in Madrid in March 2004 and 7/7 in London. The challenge of such violent radicalism (and it is important to qualify it as such, since radicalism traditionally has been a political virtue of the Left demanding change) affects security policy as well as the integrity and dignity of Muslim communities. Tahir Abbas, a reader in sociology at the University of Birmingham and a leading expert on the sociology of Britain’s Muslim communities, has assembled a vibrant interdisciplinary circle of specialists, comprisingMuslim and non-Muslim academics and activists, to tackle this question. The collection brings together studies in political science, political sociology (the primary focus for the debate on radicalism), anthropology, psychology, criminology, and related disciplines.The contributors concentrate on Britain, albeit within a European context, and thus this book might be of value for those studying Islamismin otherMuslim-minority contexts (particularly the United States) and even in Muslim-majority contexts as a base of comparison ...
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