Islamist narratives in ISIS recruitment propaganda

Mahood, Samantha; Rane, Halim

doi:10.1080/13216597.2016.1263231

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“…As discussed earlier, this is related to the expectation of positive group status once a group achieves group goals through collective action (Doosje et al., ; Tajfel & Turner, ). In the context of terrorism, previous studies have shown that potential terrorist actors have imagined Islam gloriously ruling the world, as found in the Caliphate period (Volkan, ,) and of the good life under Islamic government, as found in existing Islamic governments such as ISIS (Kraidy, ; Mahood & Rane, ). The belief that individuals can achieve such goals motivates them to join jihadist groups.…”

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An investigation of an Expanded Encapsulate Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) including perception of threat and intergroup contact to understand support for Islamist terrorism in Indonesia

Yustisia

Shadiqi

Milla

et al. 2019

Asian J of Social Psycho

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Although there have been many empirical studies of terrorism within the psychology literature, relatively few studies have theorized terrorism from the perspective of collective action theory. The present study aimed to understand factors that predict support for Islamist terrorism by using the Encapsulate Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) perspective. To extend previous studies, we added perception of threat and intergroup contact to the model. A correlational study using 66 terrorism detainees in Indonesia as participants found solid support for our expanded EMSICA. The models extending EMSICA with perception of threat and quantity of contact as predictors had improved fit indices and explained more variance in the dependent variable support for Islamist terrorism, as compared to the standard model. Social identity had a significant direct effect on support for Islamist terrorism and mediated the effect of intergroup contact, perception of threat, perceived injustice, and group efficacy on support for Islamist terrorism.

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An investigation of an Expanded Encapsulate Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) including perception of threat and intergroup contact to understand support for Islamist terrorism in Indonesia

Yustisia

Shadiqi

Milla

et al. 2019

Asian J of Social Psycho

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“…Ideologies and world views are an inescapable feature of violent extremism. The role of ideas is particularly notable in the use of narratives as a persuasive tool through the framing and construction of events and problems in the world, and some idealised vision of what the world or society could or should be (Braddock and Horgan 2016;Mahood and Rane 2017;Kundnani 2012). Narratives can feed into a process of moral disengagement through fuelling an "us and them" discourse, reducing the humanity and value of the "them" rendering violence more possible (Aly, Taylor, and Karnovsky 2014).…”

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Being resilient to radicalisation in PVE policy: a critical examination

Stephens

Sieckelinck

2019

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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The problematic nature of certain policies and approaches to preventing and countering violent extremism has been robustly demonstrated; it is clear that rethinking the prevention of violent extremism requires concerted attention. One response to critiques of security-driven approaches has been the adoption of the language of resilience building. However, the turn to resilience has not been matched by a fundamental rethinking of approach, and may often mask troubling approaches in the language of objectivity and positivity. In rethinking the question of prevention, examining the concept of resilience is important not only to address a current trend in policy discourse, but also to benefit from the rich literature on resilience from which valuable lessons may be drawn. A critically informed concept of resilience has the potential to provide a framework of response that recognises individuals and communities as political actors who, rather than being shielded from ideologies, require the resources and channels to challenge violence, discrimination, and injustice, be it state or nonstate driven. This article, through examining the current use of "resilience" in PVE policies, makes a modest attempt to draw on lessons from applying resilience in other contexts to articulate possible features of a critically informed approach to preventing violent extremism.

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“…(2) religious extremism associated with the global spread of Salafism, particularly Saudi Arabian Wahhabism, since the 1970s, which has promoted a shariah-oriented, literalist, ultra-conservative, intolerant interpretation of Islam; and (3) radicalization arising from grievances over 21st-century Western military interventions in Muslim-majority countries associated with the war on terror, coupled with feelings of marginalization and discrimination in response to pejorative Western media and political discourses concerning Islam and Muslims. The massive death tolls and destruction caused by Western military interventions have created conditions that have produced militant groups such as ISIS and reinforced their recruitment propaganda (Mahood and Rane 2017), while Western media coverage and political discourses that conflate Muslims with terrorism, and Islam with politicized violence (Courty et al 2018), have contributed to the alienation and radicalization of some Muslims, particularly among those whose formative years occurred in the post-9/11 era (Roose 2016; Rane and Bull 2019), including Muslim Australian terrorism offenders.…”

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“…The ensuing indignation with the conduct of certain Western governments is wrongly projected onto innocent Western civilians, most of whom also oppose these military interventions (Fishwick 2016). Further consequences include the creation of conditions that give rise to terrorist groups such as ISIS and the provision of material for recruitment propaganda (Mahood and Rane 2017). Additionally, having displaced millions of people, whose arrival in the West in search of security has inflamed anti-immigrant and racist sentiments, Western military interventions have arguably contributed to the rise of anti-Muslim populism in the West, which has impacted politics in Europe, United Kingdom, United States and Australia.…”

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“Cogent Religious Instruction”: A Response to the Phenomenon of Radical Islamist Terrorism in Australia

Rane

2019

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Over the past 15 years, 47 Muslim Australians have been convicted for terrorism offences. Australian courts have determined that these acts were motivated by the offenders’ “Islamic” religious beliefs and that interpretations of Quranic verses concerning jihad, in relation to shariah, caliphate, will of God and religious duty contributed to the commission of these crimes. This paper argues that these ideas, derived from certain classical-era Islamic jurisprudence and modern Islamist thought, contradict other classical-era interpretations and, arguably, the original teachings of Islam in the time of the Prophet Muhammad. In response to the call for “cogent religious instruction” to combat the phenomenon of radical Islamist terrorism, this paper outlines a deradicalization program that addresses late 20th- and early 21st-century time-period effects: (1) ideological politicization associated with Islamist jihadism; (2) religious extremism associated with Salafism; and (3) radicalization associated with grievances arising from Western military interventions in Muslim-majority countries. The paper offers a counter narrative, based on a contextualized reading of the Quran and recent research on the authentication of the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad. It further contends that cogent religious instruction must enhance critical-thinking skills and provide evidence-based knowledge in order to undermine radical Islamist extremism and promote peaceful coexistence.

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Islamist narratives in ISIS recruitment propaganda

Cited by 101 publications

References 22 publications

An investigation of an Expanded Encapsulate Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) including perception of threat and intergroup contact to understand support for Islamist terrorism in Indonesia

An investigation of an Expanded Encapsulate Model of Social Identity in Collective Action (EMSICA) including perception of threat and intergroup contact to understand support for Islamist terrorism in Indonesia

Being resilient to radicalisation in PVE policy: a critical examination

“Cogent Religious Instruction”: A Response to the Phenomenon of Radical Islamist Terrorism in Australia

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