2010
DOI: 10.1007/s11562-010-0124-9
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Tropes of the crusades in Indonesian Muslim discourse

Abstract: This paper concerns the ways in which tropes of the Crusades are used in contemporary Indonesian Islamic discourse. It is based on the analysis of contemporary textual materials and on ethnographic research conducted between 1978 and 2009. It is argued that tropes of the Crusades and now linked to an Islamist discourse that is AntiWestern and Anti-Semitic and that they are employed as mythological archetypes that link the colonial past with contemporary Indonesian politics and world affairs.

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“…On Indonesian Anti-Semitism more generally, see van Bruinessen (1994); Siegel (2000). 13 For an analysis of the role of anti-Semitism in contemporary Indonesian Islamist discourse, see Woodward (2010). 14 Majalah Islam Sabili June 29th 2006, pp.…”
Section: Gaza and Indonesia: Political And Religious Contextsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…On Indonesian Anti-Semitism more generally, see van Bruinessen (1994); Siegel (2000). 13 For an analysis of the role of anti-Semitism in contemporary Indonesian Islamist discourse, see Woodward (2010). 14 Majalah Islam Sabili June 29th 2006, pp.…”
Section: Gaza and Indonesia: Political And Religious Contextsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Object directed dehumanization involves the characterization of enemy others as lacking "the attributes considered to be most human." Woodward (2010) has argued that the symbolic processes of object directed dehumanization involve the projection of deeply seated fears or archetypes of evil onto opponents. Bernard, Ottenberg and Redl suggest that object directed dehumanization promotes and legitimizes violence because it allows individuals and social groups to bypass "those psychic inhibitions against taking life that have become part of civilized man."…”
Section: Gaza and Indonesia: Political And Religious Contextsmentioning
confidence: 99%