Reactive Co-Radicalization: Religious Extremism as Mutual Discontent

Extremist rhetoric and behaviour, including violence, emanating from those fearing and opposed to Islamic extremism--and typically generalising that to Islam or Muslims--is undeniable. Equally, there is evidence of Muslim rhetoric that fires up fears of a threatening West and antipathy to religious...

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Published in:Journal for the academic study of religion
Main Author: Pratt, Douglas 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2015]
In: Journal for the academic study of religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Muslim / Radicalization / Injustice / Perception
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
Further subjects:B DISCONTENT
B Islamism
B religious extremism
B Radicalization
B Religious Aspects
B Anders Breivik
B Social aspects
B JEWS Social life & customs
B Christians
B Radicalism
B RHETORIC Religious aspects Islam
B Swiss minaret ban
B ISLAM & politics
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Summary:Extremist rhetoric and behaviour, including violence, emanating from those fearing and opposed to Islamic extremism--and typically generalising that to Islam or Muslims--is undeniable. Equally, there is evidence of Muslim rhetoric that fires up fears of a threatening West and antipathy to religious 'others' as damned infidels, including Christians and Jews who are otherwise regarded as co-religionists--as 'peoples of the Book'. Mutual discontent and antipathy abound. On the one hand, Islamic extremism provokes a reactionary extremism from parts, at least, of the non-Muslim world; on the other hand, Muslim extremism appears often in response to the perception of an aggressive and impositional colonising non-Muslim world. 'Reactive Co-Radicalization', I suggest, names this mutual rejection and exclusionary circle currently evident, in particular, with respect to many Muslim and non-Muslim communities. This article discusses reactive coradicalization as a hermeneutical perspective on religious extremism with particular reference to two European cases.
ISSN:2047-7058
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the academic study of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1558/jasr.v28i1.26800