Taking God Seriously: The Struggle against Extremism

Saiya, Nilay; Fidler, Joshua

doi:10.1111/mepo.12326

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“…Additionally, it highlights the important role political institutions play in shaping religious violence and religious politics more broadly. While religious beliefs matter, it is their political context that determines religion's impact on society and its form, whether violent or peaceful (Philpott 2007;Toft, Philpott, and Shah 2011;Saiya 2015Saiya , 2018Saiya and Scime 2015;Henne 2017;Saiya and Fidler 2017).…”

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Weapon of the Strong? Government Support for Religion and Majoritarian Terrorism

Henne

Saiya

Hand

2020

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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This article addresses a puzzle in terrorism studies. That terrorism functions as a “weapon of the weak” is conventional wisdom among terrorism researchers. When it comes to religious communities, however, often it is those groups favored by the state—rather than repressed minority communities—that commit acts of terrorism. We argue that this is because official religious favoritism can empower and radicalize majority communities, leading them to commit more and more destructive terrorist attacks. We test this claim using a statistical analysis of Muslim-majority countries. Our findings support the idea that the combination of state support of religion and discrimination against minorities encourages terrorism from majority religious groups.

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Weapon of the Strong? Government Support for Religion and Majoritarian Terrorism

Henne

Saiya

Hand

2020

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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“…Monica Duffy Toft, a political scientist, stated that Islamic ideological features are prominent in relatively 98 per cent of religious terrorist incidents. 28 This includes criminal acts in Indonesia by approximately 207 million Muslims or 87.2% of its citizens. 29 Historically, Islam was introduced in Indonesia over 700 years ago by proselytizing traders from India and the Middle East who played an essential role in fighting colonialism.…”

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Indonesia’s Laws and Policies in Combatting Terrorism Financing

Afriansyah,

Ghozi,

Wargadalem

2023

AML CFT Journal

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This article discusses Indonesia's latest developments, challenges, and remedies for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter-Terrorist Financing (CFT) laws. Data were collected by analyzing the challenges of implementing international regulations, such as the United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) and FATF recommendation. Indonesia is expected to improve their regulations and set high supervision towards the risk of AML/CFT to combat terrorism financing. No studies have been conducted to discuss the latest 2019 UNSCR, a relevant regulation to be implemented by countries to tackle terrorist financing. Therefore, this study aims to examine the significant contribution of the UNSCR and suggest proper implementation in Indonesia.

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“…He did not, however, test the argument empirically. In other work, Saiya has argued that environments of religious liberty induce moderation among religious populations, while the opposite occurs in environments repressive of religion (Saiya 2014; Saiya and Scime 2015; Saiya 2017a; Saiya 2017b; Saiya 2018; Saiya and Fidler 2018; Saiya 2019a; Saiya 2019b; Saiya and Manchanda 2020a; Saiya and Manchanda 2020b; Saiya 2021a; Saiya 2021b). Yet it remains unclear if the same kind of logic would also apply to non-religious terrorists.…”

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Democracy’s Ambivalent Effect on Terrorism

Hand

Saiya

2022

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Does democracy heighten or lessen the incidence of terrorism? This question has eluded a definitive answer for over three decades. Some terrorism researchers find that democracy has dampened terrorism; others that democracy has encouraged it; still others that there is a curvilinear or more nuanced relationship between the two. In this article, we contend that democracy has differential effects on terrorism, depending on the goals of particular terrorist groups. We claim that efforts to restrict democracy, by decreasing political rights and civil liberties, will effectively constrain terrorist activity from “strategic” groups but will have the opposite effect on “universalist” groups. The reason for this variance, we argue, involves the scope of ambition and underlying motivation distinguishing these very different types of terrorist movements. Because universalist groups have abstract ambitions and non-negotiable goals, they are unlikely to be deterred by crackdowns on democracy. Alternatively, because strategic groups do not see their missions as all-or-nothing campaigns of good versus evil and instead seek limited and concrete goals, anti-democratic measures are more likely to succeed against them. Our analysis of 200 countries from 1972 to 2016 finds strong support for this claim.

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Taking God Seriously: The Struggle against Extremism

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Weapon of the Strong? Government Support for Religion and Majoritarian Terrorism

Weapon of the Strong? Government Support for Religion and Majoritarian Terrorism

Indonesia’s Laws and Policies in Combatting Terrorism Financing

Democracy’s Ambivalent Effect on Terrorism

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