In mainstream Islamist discourse, there is an awkward coexistence between recognition of women as equal political actors and affirmation a traditional Muslim view the man head family. Islamism emerged in countries where patriarchy has remained deeply engrained. Yet their stances have varied. Morocco, female Islamists pushed for women’s rights guarded opening towards cooperation with feminists. ...

BACKGROUND Very recent acts of terrorism in the UK were perpetrated by 'homegrown', well educated young people, rather than by foreign Islamist groups; consequently, a process of violent radicalization was proposed to explain how ordinary people were recruited and persuaded to sacrifice their lives. DISCUSSION Counterterrorism approaches grounded in the criminal justice system have not preven...

this study explains the formation of islamist discourse in turkey and its impact on its foreign policy (with an emphasis on justice and development party -akp). the findings which are based on discourse analysis of ernesto laclau and chantal mouffe, indicate that the islam-minded modern turkey actors (in akp) could weaken one of the main aspects of kemalist ideology in a democratic and peaceful...

In the 2002 Turkish parliamentary election, more than half of the voters cast their ballots for a party different than the one they chose in 1999. The outcomes of these elections are analyzed at the provincial level, through a system of regression equations. The results obtained indicate that votes moved from the Virtue, Nationalist Action, Motherland and True Path parties to the Justice and De...

Despite the perceived importance of media in the spread of and resistance against Islamist extremism, little is known about how Muslims use different kinds of media to get information about religious issues, and what sources they trust when doing so. This paper reports the results of a large, random sample survey among Muslims in seven countries Southeast Asia, West Africa and Western Europe, w...

This paper explores the interrelationship between culture, language and communication. English has established a position for itself as widely spoken in world many aspects of people’s lives regardless race, creed or religion . Many Islamic specific terms have been borrowed into result continuous contact Muslims English-speaking communities. study analyzes semantic change three commonly used by ...