1.5 Rational Radicalism..............Why Do People Become Terrorists? Most studies of the causes of Islamism offer a grievance based explanation implicitly rooted in functionalist social psychology accounts of mass behaviour‚ which view collective action as derived from exogenous structural strains that create individual frustration and motivation for deviant social behaviour. Structural strains such as modernization‚ industrialization‚ economic crisis cause psychological discomfort which in turn
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toward Romeo making his feel the way he does. Shakespeare has made Romeo refer to Juliet as an angel to clearly illustrate his affection toward Juliet. The word angel also had biblical references relating to the religions Christianity‚ Judaism‚ and Islamism. It has references to a messenger of god with great beauty and values. The use of certain word choice in this line helps portray Romeos feelings toward Juliet as eternal‚ endless and everlasting and that he feels stronger about Juliet then he ever
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Real Pakistan Zindabad Pakistan was a beautiful country‚ decades ago. People were free to walk on streets‚ children were safe to play outside‚ and everyone was happy. The education system was a creative on-going system. There was no terrorism and hooliganism‚ but now it is the opposite of what I mentioned above. Nowadays‚ Pakistan is a country known for corruptions and terrorism‚ it is no longer the Pakistan that was in the time of Quaid-e-Azam. The government itself is corrupt. The education system
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Islamism: A set of ideologies holding that Islam should guide social and political as well as personal life. The goal of Islamist movements is to establish an Islamic state to implement the Sharia law. They are however not a unified movement and encompass different groups with different political agendas and interpretation of the religion. Mohammad Mossadeq: Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. Led the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry and rejected neocolonial domination of Iran in the
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Larry Diamond’s presentation explores the question of why there are no Arab democracies in the Middle East and North Africa. He shows us the relatively stagnant levels of democratic freedoms that have been the norm in the region for the past several decades. Diamond gives us a multitude of potential explanations for the absence of a sustainable democracy. His first explanation implicates that there must be something within the Islam or Arab culture or religion‚ that prevents the formation of a
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Somalia: Phases of the Modern Development of Islamic Movements Dr. Abdurahman Abdullahi ( Baadiyow)i The historical evolution of the Islamic movements in Somalia have attracted less academic interest in the research communities and existing modest literature addresses Islam from the margins of history‚ through Orientalist and secularist discourses and security perspectives. Nonetheless‚ scholarship on Islam in Somalia slightly improved since the collapse of the Somali state in 1991 and increased
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Congress‚ Congressional Research Service‚ 1983. Print. Kobrin‚ Nancy. The Banality of Suicide Terrorism the Naked Truth about the Psychology of Islamic Suicide Bombing. Washington‚ D.C.: Potomac‚ 2010. Print. http://www.clarionproject.org/understanding-islamism/islamic-extremism
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Communalism is a belief that all those who have a common religion also have‚ as a result‚ common social‚ political‚ cultural and economic interests and identities. It is a notion that religion forms the base of the society and a basic unit of division and that it is religion which determines all other interests of its adherents. Hence communalism is a phenomenon of superimposition of religious beliefs on all other aspects of a man’s life. Because in pre-independence India‚ communalism mainly manifested
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Know definitions‚ significance‚ and examples: Religion: Defined by geographers Robert Stoddard and Carolyn Prorak in the book Geography in America as “a system of beliefs and practices that attempts to order life in terms of culturally perceived ultimate priorities.” Ritual: A religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order. Secularism: The idea that ethical and moral standards should be formulated and adhered to for life on Earth‚ not
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It is surprising that throughout recent decades‚ “conservative” religious values and practices have spread among many Muslims around the globe. In particular‚ the progress Muslim women have made in incorporating traditional practices into their daily lives by personal choice—particularly choosing to veil‚ is astonishing. Through looking at the works of Leila Ahmed’s A Quiet Revolution and Sadek Hamid’s “The Attraction of Authentic Islam‚” this spread of traditional values proves to be true and surprising
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