- Title Information
- Title
- The Ideology of Terrorism: Radicalism Revisited
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Chertoff, Michael
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- author
- Type of Resource
- text
- Genre (aat)
- articles
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 2008
- Language
(usage="primary")
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- digitalOrigin
- born digital
- Extent
- pp. 11-20
- Related Item:
Host
- Title Information
- Title
- Brown Journal of World Affairs
- Identifier:
ISSN
- 1080-0786
- Part
- Part Detail:
volume
- Part Number
- 15
- Part Caption
- no.
- Part Detail:
issue
- Part Number
- 1
- Part Caption
- no.
- Extent
(unit="page")
- Start
- 11
- End
- 20
- Abstract
(lang="eng")
-
The article explores the ideology of the terrorists who commit acts of mass murder against non-Muslims and Muslims alike and identifies the difference of Osama bin Laden's violent extremism and his fellow travelers from modern democracy and historical Islam. The language used by extremist leaders mimics the radical rhetoric of the last century. The use of the jargon of Western radicalism is not restricted to al-Qaeda or to other Sunni extremist groups. Indiscriminate violence is carried by Islamist radicalism on the legacy of revolutionary Marxism and fascism. Another trait borrowed by radical Islamism from revolutionary Western ideology is the elevation of rule of the ideologically correct man above the rule of law.
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.26300/hwhp-5256