The Oct. 10, 2015, suicide bomber attack at the village of Baga Sola in Chad killed and wounded dozens. Amid a long litany of terrible attacks launched by the Islamist group Boko Haram, this one was notable not so much for its severity, but for its perpetra- tors: one male, two females and two child bombers.

One of the distinctive challenges of the period we live in is the significant presence of violence in our societies. These acts of violence stem from a doctrine of hatred and intolerance that fracture societies into constant turbulence and upheaval. For violent Islamist organizations like Al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiyah in Southeast Asia, this ideology of hatred is based on an extreme interpretat...

Algeria’s economic crisis parallels and is an intrinsic part of its political crisis over the past decade. It consists, furthermore, of an interrelated crisis over control of the economic rent and the activities of an informal parallel economy originally based on smuggling and now sustained through violence which is legitimised by Islamist rhetoric. Economic reform, therefore, cannot be meaning...

iran's islamic revolution as an unparalleled event in the final years of the twentieth century, have attracted the attention of many scholars and researchers in the social and political sciences.thus, different theories and approaches were used to study this phenomenon. most of these theories and approaches inclined to study the manner and circmstances or events leading to the triumph of t...

Abstract: This study reviews the strengthening of Aswaja An-Nahdliyah tradition; efforts to counter transnational Islamic movement. Talking about movement, it cannot be separated from desire Islamist group. Such as Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) and Muslim Brotherhood (IM) introduce Islam that really refers Qur'an Sunnah Prophet. The purpose this is describe Next, describes tradition in context ...

This article addresses counter-Islamist discourses by NU Garis Lucu (NU’s Funny Brigade) through its social media accounts. Instead of a clear-cut theological debates, offers humour as method to counter attack Islamit’s arguments social-media activism. Using discourse analysis approach, this examines tweets the Lucu’s during course 2015-2020. It further reveals account strategies Islamist’s whi...