This chapter deals with the relationship between Eri, a young Acehnese man living in a tsunami affected neighborhood in the city of Banda Aceh, and his parents. I came to know Eri’s family well during my field research in the Indonesian province of Aceh in 20092010. Eri was then 24 years old. Not long before that, he spent two years at an Islamic school in Jakarta. There he felt attracted to th...

This paper aims to study the Islamism identity of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (JDP). To date, question regarding JDP’s has been widely debated. The JDP frequently labelled as an Islamist party due its historical background, while other perspectives perceive a non-Islamist party. Contradiction among scholars resulted in several debates existing literature. Therefore, this attempts rev...

Violent Jihad in the Netherlands Current trends in the Islamist terrorist threat 2 3 Contents Foreword 5 Introduction 7 The murder of Theo van Gogh: consequences and effects 7 General trends in the development of jihadism 9 Framework of terms and definitions 10 1 From exogenous threat to home-grown terrorism 13 1.1 What is a jihadist network? 13 1.2 Historical development of network formation 1...