Many countries including Bangladesh are facing new form of terrorism that surfaced after 9/11 attacks on US soil and after Afghan and Iraq wars. The traditional tactics of war are not suitable for combating new terror...Many countries including Bangladesh are facing new form of terrorism that surfaced after 9/11 attacks on US soil and after Afghan and Iraq wars. The traditional tactics of war are not suitable for combating new terrorism. This paper reviews the shifts occurred in understanding of terrorism overtime. Fighting new terrorism is characterized as a battle of ideas. Experts are using word ＂radicalization＂ to explain Jihadi terrorism. This paper introduces a new paradigm to abate this new terrorism by outlining an intervention program called a Natural Grassroots Barrier to Terrorism （NGBT）. It provides the outline of the program NGBT by highlighting the roles of women members of two Non-Government Organizations （NGOs） of Bangladesh and introduces a new paradigm to encounter terrorism. This paper provides a brief description of factors which prompted the gradual shift to explain this new form of terrorism. These shifts have been described in three phases and they are： （1） Early and pre-9/11 phase; （2） Post-9/11 phase; and （3） Maturation phase.展开更多
Since the events of 9/11 and the so-called ＂war on terror＂, ＂Muslim＂ has been used synonymously with ＂terrorist＂ dividing particularly those Muslims living in the West into either ＂good＂ Muslims or ＂bad＂ Mus...Since the events of 9/11 and the so-called ＂war on terror＂, ＂Muslim＂ has been used synonymously with ＂terrorist＂ dividing particularly those Muslims living in the West into either ＂good＂ Muslims or ＂bad＂ Muslims. Ed Husain in his memoir The Islamist uses this dichotomy as well as that of the ＂witness＂ in presenting himself as a credible analyst in answering why some young Muslims become attracted to fundamentalist Islamist groups hostile to the West. Ed Husain is a second generation of British Asian Muslim who rejected the Sufi political quietism of his parents for the revolutionary ideologies of Islamic ＂ideologues＂ such as Abul A＇la Maududi, Sayyid Qutb, and particularly Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, joining Hizb-ut-Tahrir as an active member. Ed Husain＇s story is one of a fractured past, manhood, the search for an authentic Islam, and becoming British.展开更多
Nowadays a well-defined idea of barbarians as the cause of the decline of an advanced civilization is widespread.This paper aims firstly to analyze the different meanings that the term barbarian has assumed in media o...Nowadays a well-defined idea of barbarians as the cause of the decline of an advanced civilization is widespread.This paper aims firstly to analyze the different meanings that the term barbarian has assumed in media outlets context in recent years,with emphasis on Italian political dimension.Secondly,it aims to examine if(and how much)it could be argued that,in these cases of manipulation,the sources of the late antique world have a crucial role in this kind of cultural biases.The comparative analysis of these two categories seems to reveal the reiteration of a stratified archive that,formed in ancient times and consolidated over time,maintains its main purpose:opposing the dominant social group(ingroup)and heterogeneous minorities(outgroups).So,what is the cultural operations that stay behind this approach?Is it possible to affirm that certain ideological identity archives are replicated over time applied to phenomena perceived as similar to each other,or would it be more correct to look at them as autonomous narratives?展开更多
文摘Many countries including Bangladesh are facing new form of terrorism that surfaced after 9/11 attacks on US soil and after Afghan and Iraq wars. The traditional tactics of war are not suitable for combating new terrorism. This paper reviews the shifts occurred in understanding of terrorism overtime. Fighting new terrorism is characterized as a battle of ideas. Experts are using word ＂radicalization＂ to explain Jihadi terrorism. This paper introduces a new paradigm to abate this new terrorism by outlining an intervention program called a Natural Grassroots Barrier to Terrorism （NGBT）. It provides the outline of the program NGBT by highlighting the roles of women members of two Non-Government Organizations （NGOs） of Bangladesh and introduces a new paradigm to encounter terrorism. This paper provides a brief description of factors which prompted the gradual shift to explain this new form of terrorism. These shifts have been described in three phases and they are： （1） Early and pre-9/11 phase; （2） Post-9/11 phase; and （3） Maturation phase.
文摘Since the events of 9/11 and the so-called ＂war on terror＂, ＂Muslim＂ has been used synonymously with ＂terrorist＂ dividing particularly those Muslims living in the West into either ＂good＂ Muslims or ＂bad＂ Muslims. Ed Husain in his memoir The Islamist uses this dichotomy as well as that of the ＂witness＂ in presenting himself as a credible analyst in answering why some young Muslims become attracted to fundamentalist Islamist groups hostile to the West. Ed Husain is a second generation of British Asian Muslim who rejected the Sufi political quietism of his parents for the revolutionary ideologies of Islamic ＂ideologues＂ such as Abul A＇la Maududi, Sayyid Qutb, and particularly Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, joining Hizb-ut-Tahrir as an active member. Ed Husain＇s story is one of a fractured past, manhood, the search for an authentic Islam, and becoming British.
文摘Nowadays a well-defined idea of barbarians as the cause of the decline of an advanced civilization is widespread.This paper aims firstly to analyze the different meanings that the term barbarian has assumed in media outlets context in recent years,with emphasis on Italian political dimension.Secondly,it aims to examine if(and how much)it could be argued that,in these cases of manipulation,the sources of the late antique world have a crucial role in this kind of cultural biases.The comparative analysis of these two categories seems to reveal the reiteration of a stratified archive that,formed in ancient times and consolidated over time,maintains its main purpose:opposing the dominant social group(ingroup)and heterogeneous minorities(outgroups).So,what is the cultural operations that stay behind this approach?Is it possible to affirm that certain ideological identity archives are replicated over time applied to phenomena perceived as similar to each other,or would it be more correct to look at them as autonomous narratives?
