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Record Nr.

UNINA9911008990503321

Autore

Permono Prakoso

Titolo

Terrorism in Indonesia and the Perceived Oppression of Muslims Worldwide

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9789815104820

9815104829

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (30 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

SuryanaA'an

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- Terrorism in Indonesia and the Perceived Oppression of Muslims Worldwide -- INTRODUCTION -- MUSLIM SOLIDARITY MOTIVATION AND METHODOLOGY -- THE WORLDVIEW OF JIHADISTS: UMMAH AND MUSLIM SOLIDARITY -- MUSLIM SOLIDARITY, PERCEIVED OPPRESSION OF MUSLIMS AND VIOLENT JIHAD -- PERCEIVED MUSLIM OPPRESSION IN INDIA, CHINA AND MYANMAR -- THE GOVERNMENT'S ROLE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

Various motivations underlying terrorism uncovered by recent scholarship include the radicals' desire for Muslim unity, political interest, yearning to correct social and economic deprivation in the Muslim world, and simply anti-Westernism.This article focuses on the radicals' call for Muslim solidarity and how this tends towards becoming their primary motivation for perpetrating terrorism. It discusses how radical groups and individuals exaggerate the perceived oppression of Muslims worldwide and how this encourages their sympathizers in planning, fundraising and/or executing terrorist attacks.The so-called ummah solidarity discourse is coupled with the prevalence of the dogma that Muslims are targets of Western or foreign oppression. This has legitimized jihadist terrorists' use of violence and facilitated the recruitment of new terrorists.Besides regular crackdowns on terrorists and putting limitations on access to radical websites and other Internet sources, this article contends that the Indonesian



security apparatuses and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must work with the embassies from India, China and Myanmar based in Jakarta to nullify any likelihood of terror attacks on their embassy compounds or their citizens.