The Image of the Other as Enemy - Radical Discourse in Indonesia

This book analyzes the systematic construction of the image of the Other (that is, non-Muslims) by two radical Islamic Groups, Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia and Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia. The author documents discourse patterns in the groups' publications and speeches stereotyping non-Muslims as hostile towards Islam and imagining Islam's imminent victory after an inevitable clash with all other civilizations. Although these groups do not engage in physical violence, the author categorizes their efforts to stereotype non-Muslims as "symbolic violence" and counterproductive because of the religious and ethnic pluralism of Indonesian society. Muhammad Iqbal Ahnaf is a lecturer and researcher at the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies at Gadjah Mada University and at Darul Ulum Islamic University, Lamongan, Indonesia.

List of contents

Foreword

Introduction

--Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia

--Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia

The Image of the Other As Enemy

--Constructing the Image

Analyzing the Image of the Other

--Roots of the Image

--Discourse Patterns Used in Constucting the Image

Symbolic Violence

Flaws in the Fundamentalist Arguments

--Critiquing the Four-Fold Discourse

--Another Flawed Arguement: Perpetual Conflict

--Misleading Selections from Religious Texts

Fundamentalism as a Resistence Movement

Summary and Conclusions

Notes

References

About the author

Muhammad Iqbal Ahnaf

Product details

• Authors: Muhammad Iqbal Ahnaf
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2006
• EAN: 9789749361993
• ISBN: 978-974-93619-9-3
• No. of pages: 76
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 214 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 145 g
• Series: Islam in Southeast Asia: Views; Islam in Southeast Asia: Views from within Series; Islam in Southeast Asia: Views from within Series; Islam in Southeast Asia: Views
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories