This paper reports data from a study of young Catholic activists. They were concerned about the expansion Islamist populism in democratic Muslim-majority Indonesia. actively built inter-faith coalitions with local liberal Muslim youth groups and pan-national Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), largest independent Islamic organisation world. prioritises religious identity over national citizenship. In framing...

The Islamist group Boko Haram (BH) was founded in the early 2000s and less than two decades has transformed from a “Nigerian” movement into regional one. Tactical, strategic ideological differences between leaders of BH have repeatedly led to its splits separate factions; most serious occurred 2016, when split Islamic State West Africa Province Jamaatu Ahl-is-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad, latter...

How do women fare under rule by Islamists? Whereas some scholarly work suggests that Islamists are effective at providing the type of social services that benefit women most, other studies contend that Islamic groups support “pro-male” policies and cultural interventions that disadvantage the well-being of women. In order to adjudicate between these views, I compare two neighborhoods in Greater...

Abstract The psychological mechanisms that lead terrorists to make costly sacrifices for their ideological convictions are of great theoretical and practical importance. We investigate two key components this process: (1) the feeling admiration toward ingroup members making self-sacrifices group, (2) identity fusion with religion. Data collected in 27 Spanish prisons reveal jihadists’ radical I...

In the context of a damaging absence clarity, we define “Islamist Extremism” as: absolutely divided and antagonistic Worldview “Us”-true-Muslim “in-group” who must strive to live in an “Islamic” State versus “Them”-non-Muslim’ “wrong”-Muslim “out-groups” are stripped their human status due opposition “true Islam.” We illustrate this definition “Extremism” - including showing how Islamist Extrem...

Theorizing rebellion seems a self-contradictory task. The moment one encapsulates, staticizes, and, in effect, institutionalizes rebellion in academized walls of theory, is the moment at which one has stripped rebellion of its dignity and, in some respects, of its purpose. Rebellion, as Albert Camus deanes it, is the right to determine one’s own boundaries. It is the right to assert the truth a...