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1 RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM: ISLAMIC EXTREMISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA REACTIVE CO-RADICALIZATION

2 SOME KEY ELEMENTS OF ISLAM ISLAM SUBMISSION TO THE WILL OF GOD (ALLAH) AL-JAHILIYYA IGNORANCE (OF GOD...) ISLAMISATION PROCESS OF SUBMISSION SHARI A GOVERNANCE OF/BY GOD S LAW AL-IJTIHAD POSITIVE STRUGGLE FOR FAITH JIHAD DEFENSIVE STRUGGLE AGAINST UNBELIEF MUJTIHAD ONE WHO STRUGGLES FOR THE FAITH

3 GENERIC ISSUE: ISLAM AND THE OTHER CO-BELIEVER PEOPLE OF THE BOOK : DHIMMI NON-BELIEVER INFIDEL : KAFIR OTHER BELIEVER = FALSE FAITH; OUTSIDE REVELATION ANTI-BELIEVER RENUNCIATION, REJECTION: APOSTATE

4 ISLAMIC EXTREMISM UNDERLYING PREMISES/THEMES FUSION OF RELIGION AND POLITICS ISLAMIC ORDER DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY / RULE SHARIA DOMINANT ISLAMIC AUTHENTICITY VS. IGNORANCE (AL-JAHILIYYA) AL-JAHILIYYA NOW SECULAR WESTERN CULTURE JIHAD MILITARISATION OF STRUGGLE FOR FAITH (ISLAMISM) A LEADING IDEOLOGUE OF ISLAMISM SAYED QUTB

5 ISLAMIC EXTREMISM APPLIED: IDEOLOGY OF IMPOSITIONAL POWER ENCOMPASSING WORLDVIEW REJECTS PLURALITY & PLURALISM IMPOSES SHARIA (ISLAMIC LAW) FOR ALL SHIFTS IN FOCUS AND GOAL FROM LOCAL/REGIONAL (TALEBAN; AL SHABAB) TO GLOBAL/UNIVERSAL (AL QAEDA; ISIS)

6 ISLAMIC IDEOLOGY IN ACTION IS / ISIS - THE ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAQ AND SHAMS (SYRIA)

7 RESTORED CALIPHATE?

8 CALIPHATE PROCLAIMED

9 WORLDVIEW BINARY

10 TRUE FAITH = ISLAMIC STATE

11 THEOLOGICAL APPEAL

12 JOURNEY TO REDEMPTION

13 PROPHECY FULFILLED

14 PROMISED LAND ATTAINED

15 THE ISLAMIC STATE DOING GOOD

16 LIBERATING THE OPPRESSED

17 EXTREMIST RHETORIC: CALL TO ARMS

18 THE ISLAMIC STATE EXTREMIST RHETORIC: VIOLENCE JUSTIFIED

19 MUSLIM REJECTION: AL MAKTOUM, PM OF UAE

20 MUSLIM REJECTION: AL MAKTOUM, PM OF UAE

21 THE ISLAMIC STATE MUSLIM REJECTION: AL MAKTOUM, PM OF UAE

22 Islamic Extremism

23 ISLAMOPHOBIA AND REACTIVE CO-RADICALIZATION EXTREME REACTIONS TO FEARED EXTREMISM: TWO EUROPEAN CASES

24 SWISS MINARET BAN ISLAM REGARDED AS AN EXCLUSIVIST AND DOMINEERING RELIGION: THE RESPONSE: ENACT A DOMINEERING EXCLUSIVISM BY WAY OF BLANKET REJECTION OF A SYMBOL OF THIS RELIGION THE INITIATIVE, ITS MOTIVES AND ARGUMENTS, BROADLY REFLECT AND ECHO CONCERNS AND PREJUDICES WIDELY HELD THROUGHOUT WESTERN EUROPE

25 FROM SPOT THE MINARET

26 TO STOP THE MINARET

27 EXTREMIST BEHIND NORWAY'S TRAGEDY

28 NORWAY S REACTIONARY TERRORIST ADVOCATES REJECTION OF ISLAM A EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (BREIVIK MANIFESTO) DEFENCE AGAINST PERCEPTION OF ISLAMIC THREAT FEAR OF CREEPING EURABIA / ISLAMIZATION SO: IMPERATIVE TO SAVE EUROPE ELIMINATE THE TRAITORS WHO ADMIT THE ISLAMIC TROJAN HORSE

29 BREIVIK A CHRISTIAN TERRORIST? CHRISTIANITY REGARDED AS HAVING THE NECESSARY UNIFYING POWER TO STAND UP TO THE INCURSION OF ISLAM THE REAL CHURCH I LOVE DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN DECONSTRUCTED. HOWEVER, I KNOW THAT IT CAN BE REFORMED AND THAT IT AGAIN WILL EMBRACE AND PROPAGATE PRINCIPLES OF STRENGTH, HONOUR AND SELF-DEFENCE BREIVIK A CULTURAL CHRISTIAN CHAMPION OF CHRISTIAN VALUES LEGACY OF THE CHURCH AS CULTURAL MARKER ALSO ASSERTS PAGAN NORTH EUROPEAN ODINIST IDENTITY

30 REACTIONARY EXTREMISM & ISLAMOPHOBIA EACH OF THE TWO CASES DISPLAYS EXTREMISM BORN OF A REACTION TO PRESUMED THREAT OF ISLAM: RADICAL RESPONSE CORRELATES TO MUSLIM RADICALIZATION THUS REACTIONARY EXTREMISM EXTREME RIGHT-WING AND QUASI-CHRISTIAN RELIGIO-POLITICAL RHETORIC JUSTIFYING ANY EXCLUSIONARY OR ELIMINATIVE ACTIONS AGAINST THE THREATENING OTHER OF ISLAM

31 REACTIVE CO-RADICALIZATION THE AWARENESS OR PRESUMPTION BY ONE (FIRST - US) PARTY THAT ANOTHER (SECOND PARTY - THEM) IS FOMENTING A THREATENING EXTREMISM WHICH THEN PRECIPITATES, WITHIN THE FIRST PARTY (US) A REACTIVE MOVE IN THE DIRECTION OF A LIKE RADICALISATION EVEN THOUGH, PARADOXICALLY, THE PERCEIVED INITIAL EXTREMISM OF THE SECOND PARTY (THEM) IS ESCHEWED AND DENOUNCED (BY US).

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