Understanding and combating terrorism: Definitions, origins and strategies

Lentini, Peter

doi:10.1080/10361140701842615

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“…Ashour, Mc Cauley, and Moskalenko, Moghaddam views radicalism as a process to adhere to or promote an ideological system and extreme trust providing a justification for violence in pursuing social, political and religious changes [5]. Similar understanding of Lentini is a process by which individuals develop, adopt and believe in political attitudes and ways of behaving differently with legitimate political, social, economic, cultural and religious values in society and also wants to change or try to change the status quo and the form used are using violence [6].…”

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thaghut referred to is international institutions whose legal sources do not refer to Islam. (3) he state and government (Indonesia) are loyal to infidels, such as America and European countries, and help them to support the Mujahideenmuwahhidin; (4) Giving or turning away rights and authority to make laws and laws to other than Allah; (5) Granting the right to do shirk, disbelief and apostasy under the pretext of religious freedom and human rights; (6) Equating between infidels and Muslims (7) The system that runs is a democratic system; (8) NKRI based on Pancasila.…”

Section: Arguments For Radicalism and Extremism In Indonesiamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Encouragement of Jihad Arguments for Radicalization and Extremism in Indonesia

Asrori¹,

Jamilah²,

Ismail³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Islam, Science and Technology (ICONIST 2019)

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Considerable efforts have been devoted countering violent-extremism in Indonesia. Various empowerment programs and training carried out by the government and the community aims to prevent the spread of radical ideologies. However, extremist groups continue to develop, while traditional extremist groups still in motion, new forms of extremist movements have emerged. Moreover, the impact of violent extremism has increased with the advancement of modern weapons, globalization and information technology such as the Internet and social media. This article pursues to understand the phenomena of people engage in extremists groups and explore arguments to encourage people to commit acts of violence. This article employed literature studies based on excombatants experiences. The article concluded that radicalization and extremism are manifestations of radical systems of thought and belief that develop in people or groups that occurs in several phases of life, not suddenly happening. Several Islamic doctrines such as tawhid, aqeedah, takfir, al wala wal-bara, and jihad, the built an unsatisfactory argument with the existing social and political conditions such as application of kafr and secular system, the hope jihad fi sabilillah, bombing as a form of obligation of jihad as ordered by religion and retaliation for cruelty and oppression of unbelievers against Muslims.

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Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Arguments For Radicalism and Extremism In Indonesiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Encouragement of Jihad Arguments for Radicalization and Extremism in Indonesia

Asrori¹,

Jamilah²,

Ismail³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Islam, Science and Technology (ICONIST 2019)

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“…24 Another study notes that over half of academic articles published between 1971 and 2003 were in the years 2001 and 2002, 25 and peer-reviewed articles increased about 300% in those two years. 26 Further, courses and modules on terrorism and terrorism studies programs have begun at virtually every major university at the graduate and postgraduate levels. A growing numbers of doctoral researchers have been undertaking their dissertations on terrorism-related topics.…”

Section: Contemporary Terrorism Studies: the Evolution Of A Research mentioning

confidence: 99%

Turkish Terrorism Studies: A Preliminary Assessment

Demir¹,

Avcı²

2017

All Azimuth: A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace

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This article aims to determine the academic disciplinary condition of Turkish terrorism studies in comparison to international ones. We first examine contemporary international terrorism studies and new trends, and then longitudinally assess Turkish terrorism studies via context and methodology. Last, we discuss how and through which perspectives the Turkish discipline could improve and thus contribute to the contemporary literature. We generated three datasets after examining theses, dissertations, and articles. Further, we conducted interviews with and administered questionnaires to terrorism experts to interpret the dataset findings. Regarding context, the most striking point of the Turkish research field is its multidisciplinary character; because of this fact, Turkish terrorism studies tend to neglect the broader field's terminology and theoretical accumulation. Regarding methodology, a significant problem in the terrorism studies in Turkey is that studies are mostly composed of literature reviews rather than empirical research, thus there is much opportunity for development.

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“…In addition, Grosscup argues that those powers which use strategic bombing have been able to monopolise definitions of terrorism (Grosscup 2006). Other scholars of terrorism studies have focused solely on individuals, and argued that terrorism is the use of threats or violence against innocent victims from nonstate actors who want to bring about political change or achieve political goals (Hoffman 1998;Lentini 2008). Given that terrorism has now taken on a global dimension in many different political contexts, some scholars argue that the concept of terrorism suffers from 'stretching', with different types of crime now viewed as terrorism (Weinberg, Pedahzur and Hirsch-Hoefler 2004).…”

Section: Terrorism and Political Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are many different understandings of what constitutes terrorism (see Lentini 2003Lentini , 2008. While the threat of terrorism is a relatively new phenomenon in Australia, different versions of terrorism have existed for centuries.…”

Section: Terrorism and Political Violencementioning

confidence: 99%