The Malaysian “Islamic” State versus the Islamic State (IS): evolving definitions of “terror” in an “Islamising” nation-state

Chan, Nicholas

doi:10.1080/17539153.2018.1447217

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“…This initial research agenda has been followed by a proliferation of scholarship on the relationship between the war on terror and the media (Al-Lami, Hoskins, and O'Loughlin 2012;Al-Sumait, Lingle, and Domke 2009;, security practitioners (Heath-Kelly 2012;Pratt 2019;Stampnitzky 2013;Zulaika 2012), and the public (Jackson and Hall 2016). There has also been a growing body of work on how political elites outside the Coalition of the Willing have deployed the language of terrorism (Baker-Beall 2009;Bogain 2017;Campana 2014;Chan 2018). Of particular relevance, Pokalova examines how the Turkish, Russian and Serbian governments used the terror discourse to frame their domestic conflicts.…”

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The long way round: how the war on terror influenced the politics of international legitimacy and Indonesia’s military action in Aceh

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Critical Studies on Terrorism

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This paper explores how the war on terror influenced the politics of international legitimacy and domestic military action in the case of Indonesia's armed conflict with separatist group Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (GAM, 2003-05). It does so by examining how the Indonesian government justified their military operation to Australian and US audiences. I offer two findings on the role of the war on terror in the politics of international legitimacy. First, context mediated how Indonesian leaders used the language of terror to legitimise their conflict to foreign audiences. Indonesian leaders were not able to hail GAM into the role of "terrorist", but they were able to invoke the spectre of terrorist hotspots by portraying GAM as a threat to regional stability. Second, Indonesia's justifications show that they perceived an obligation to other rules and norms. While the war on terror was influential, it did not monopolise the politics of international legitimacy. The paper adopts a constructivist approach to legitimacy to provide a theoretically informed account of these dynamics.

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The long way round: how the war on terror influenced the politics of international legitimacy and Indonesia’s military action in Aceh

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“…However, "Islam Hadhari's" poor implementation as well as the corruption scandals which followed from Najib's "1Malaysia" programme, led to a conservative reaction that was exploited by PAS. The politicization of religion by Malaysia's political leaders led to an "islamization race" between UMNO and PAS for electoral gains, steering the country towards a conservative direction (Chan 2018;Nawab and Osman 2014;Osman 2017). Local analysts like (Tan 2014) imply that this "islamization race" offset a conservative turn to Salafism in Malaysia which can amplify extremism and render Malaysians more vulnerable to radicalization from the Islamic State's (IS).…”

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“Moderate” vs “Extremist” Muslims? How a decontextualized distinction can trigger a contradictory assessment of security and radicalization in Malaysia

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2024

International Journal of Asian Studies

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This article demonstrates how the application of a broad and decontextualized distinction between “moderate” and “extremist” Muslims can undermine our assessment of an Islamic identity, security, and radicalization. It compares how this distinction has been used by the British colonial administrators (in Raffles, Crawfurd, Marsden, and Swettenham) in nineteenth-century Malaya and by Malaysia's Prime Ministers (Mahathir, Badawi, and Najib) in the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. This comparison demonstrates that both groups, despite their very different backgrounds (Western non-Muslim and Muslim non-Western), introduced a similar distinction between “moderate” and “extremist” driven more by socio-political objectives than by religious ones. Furthermore, the article stresses the importance of considering the socio-political and contextual dimensions of Islamic identity before attempting to explain the process of radicalization and its implications for security. Such an approach discourages reference to broad categories such as “moderate,” “extremist,” “Islamism,” or “Salafism,” and allows for discussion of their contextual and socio-political connotations.

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Political struggle of Malaysia and Islam: moderating and radicalizing the state, society, and religion alternately (1957–2023)

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The Malaysian “Islamic” State versus the Islamic State (IS): evolving definitions of “terror” in an “Islamising” nation-state

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

The long way round: how the war on terror influenced the politics of international legitimacy and Indonesia’s military action in Aceh

The long way round: how the war on terror influenced the politics of international legitimacy and Indonesia’s military action in Aceh

“Moderate” vs “Extremist” Muslims? How a decontextualized distinction can trigger a contradictory assessment of security and radicalization in Malaysia

Political struggle of Malaysia and Islam: moderating and radicalizing the state, society, and religion alternately (1957–2023)

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