This article aims to find out the roots of Islamic radicalism. With this aim in mind, the proposed hypothesis is that the Islamic fundamentalism and its extremist faction conventionally called “Islamic Radicalism” are revolt against existing situation. Multi More
This article aims to find out the roots of Islamic radicalism. With this aim in mind, the proposed hypothesis is that the Islamic fundamentalism and its extremist faction conventionally called “Islamic Radicalism” are revolt against existing situation. Multidimensional crisis in Islamic nations in general and Egypt in particular is the consequence of introduced modernism in these countries. In fact, Islamic fundamentalism has set itself to challenge the west and react strongly against the social crisis produced by modernism. Proponents of Islamic fundamentalism argue that this movement is a new identity for Moslems and a solution in preventing the social deviation and decay in Islamic world. In other words, west and modernism is perceived by Moslem fundamentalists to be the cause of all problems in the world. Proposed alternative by the proponents of Islamic fundamentalism is to return to the real Islam and animosity against western nations and their values.
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From nearly two decades ago the fundamentalist groups expanded their organized activities in the whole Africa continent and displayed a wave of Islamic radicalism in several African Countries. One of the recent groups that has been radicalized is Boko Haram in More
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From nearly two decades ago the fundamentalist groups expanded their organized activities in the whole Africa continent and displayed a wave of Islamic radicalism in several African Countries. One of the recent groups that has been radicalized is Boko Haram in Nigeria. The article attempts to examine this group as a case study and evaluate the process of formation of Islamic radicalism in Nigeria. The paper takes the help of Alain Touraine’s theory of social movements to explain this question that, what are the factors that prepared the ground for the emergence and growth of Islamic radicalism in Nigeria? The underlying hypothesis of the paper is that internal variables like widespread poverty in Muslim inhabited areas as compared to Christian region, absence of effective participation in political arena, the existence of deep rooted ethnic conflicts, the feeling of losing identity in a secular government accompanied by external factor like the support of international terrorist groups have led to radicalization and resort to violence by Boko Haram. The finding of the study shows that for reducing human and financial losses of Boko Haram, alternative strategies to confrontation should be substituted so that the intensity of attack decreased and no new forces join them. Therefore, in the first step use of strategy of compromise and persuasion can be a suitable way for stopping Boko Haram attacks.
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Abstract The present paper tries to discover the causes of Taliban emergence. Although there are external and internal factors paving the emergence of Taliban; moreover, since external factors may be an accelerating factor, therefore, studying and discovering factors wh More
Abstract The present paper tries to discover the causes of Taliban emergence. Although there are external and internal factors paving the emergence of Taliban; moreover, since external factors may be an accelerating factor, therefore, studying and discovering factors which formed Taliban are worth considering. It seems that the way Taliban’s political beliefs, ideas and thoughts formed in political sociology has eluded researchers, or has received superficial attention. The studies in the recent years about Taliban’s emergence have focused on the external factors making Taliban’s formation. In addition, most researchers paid attention to the external factors and the theory of Islam phobia which show some drawbacks. The present study applies a theoretical framework adapted from the structural theory of Michael Krause and Conceptual theory of Max Weber from one hand and considers the role of primary and secondary channels of political socialization on the other hand, and has focused on this significant idea and ignores the evaluation of different political aspects and foreign dependency, and also the policies of the regional and world countries which have had a role in forming Taleban so as to recognize the causes of emergence of Tabelanism in Afghanistan.
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