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The Talibanization of Southeast Asia - Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists (Hardcover)
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The Talibanization of Southeast Asia - Losing the War on Terror to Islamist Extremists (Hardcover)
Series: Praeger Security International
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Long before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, awakened
the United States and the Western world to the heightened level of
the terrorist threat, Southeast Asia had been dealing with this
threat. The bombing in Bali that killed 202 people, many of them
Australian tourists, was by no means the region's first experience
with Islamic extremism, which can be traced back to the 1940s, and
the Darul Islam struggle. The most recent group to emerge is
Al-Jama'ah Al-Islamiyah (AJAI), the most potent Islamic terrorist
organization to date in the region and the group behind the Bali
bombing. Prior to 9/11, the terrorist challenge was essentially
national in character, with groups attempting either to secede from
the central government to form a new state or to force the central
government to adopt policies that would support the raison d'etre
of these extremist groups. Essentially, this involved the
establishment of a political system that was more Islamic in
character, either nationally or within a specific territory of a
national state. This book analyzes the increasing Talibanization of
Southeast Asia, a relatively new phenomenon that involves the
adoption of Islamist doctrines, ideologies, and values that are
largely militant in character, and that for some groups includes
the adoption of violence to achieve their goals. Understanding this
process of Talibanization in Southeast Asia, which was once an
oasis of moderate Islam in the modern world, is the key to
unraveling the mystery of the increased radicalization in the
region. The AJAI represents the birth of the first regional
terrorist organization in Southeast Asia. It is a transnational
terrorist organization along the lines ofal-Qaeda. It aims to
establish a regional Islamic state covering most of southern
Southeast Asia that would ultimately form a new Islamic epicenter
in the Asia-Pacific region. Additionally, what has made the AJAI a
potent force has been its ability to synergize with various
existing religious extremist groups in the region and beyond,
including al-Qaeda and other like-minded groups based in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. This has succeeded in posing one of the
most serious security challenges to the region since the end of the
Cold War. Jihadists are operating in small and localized cells even
though the broad goals remain the same, namely, to spread sharia,
establish an Islamic state, and bring down secular regimes. As most
governments do not have the credibility or the expertise to
diminish the threat posed by Islamist extremism, Wahhabism, and
Salafism, Southeast Asia is in danger of being Talibanized in the
near future.
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