Islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm
Since the end of the Cold War, the West has mounted a campaign against Islam as the essential source of terrorism and the Muslims as necessarily terrorists. However, the problems of violence and terror are not isolated issues but have epistemological and unspoken real causes. Violence is related to...
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| author | El-Mesawi, Mohamed El-Tahir Khriji, Tesnim |
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| description | Since the end of the Cold War, the West has mounted a campaign against Islam as the essential source of terrorism and the Muslims as necessarily terrorists. However, the problems of violence and terror are not isolated issues
but have epistemological and unspoken real causes. Violence is related to despotism, especially the despotism of hegemony. The US-led war on terrorism is not a simple struggle between good and evil. The hidden reasons behind it
makes it difficult for the Muslims and others in the Third World to appreciate the efforts. |
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| spelling | iium-94992013-07-24T06:48:40Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/9499/ Islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm El-Mesawi, Mohamed El-Tahir Khriji, Tesnim BL Religion BP173.5 Islam and world politics Since the end of the Cold War, the West has mounted a campaign against Islam as the essential source of terrorism and the Muslims as necessarily terrorists. However, the problems of violence and terror are not isolated issues but have epistemological and unspoken real causes. Violence is related to despotism, especially the despotism of hegemony. The US-led war on terrorism is not a simple struggle between good and evil. The hidden reasons behind it makes it difficult for the Muslims and others in the Third World to appreciate the efforts. IIUM Press 2006 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/9499/1/Islam_and_Terrorism_-_Beyond_the_Wisdom_of_the_Secularist_Paradigm.pdf El-Mesawi, Mohamed El-Tahir and Khriji, Tesnim (2006) Islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm. Intellectual Discourse, 14 (1). pp. 47-70. ISSN 0128-4878 http://www.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/islam/article/view/87 |
| spellingShingle | BL Religion BP173.5 Islam and world politics El-Mesawi, Mohamed El-Tahir Khriji, Tesnim Islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm |
| title | Islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm |
| title_full | Islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm |
| title_fullStr | Islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm |
| title_full_unstemmed | Islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm |
| title_short | Islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm |
| title_sort | islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm |
| topic | BL Religion BP173.5 Islam and world politics |
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