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The Muslim Extremist Discourse - Constructing Us versus Them (Hardcover)
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The Muslim Extremist Discourse - Constructing Us versus Them (Hardcover)
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This unique book analyzes the discourse of militant organizations
affiliated with al-Qaeda. It interrogates the discourse of these
extremist organizations, which publish their own newspapers. These
publications, widely distributed to the local population, play a
critical role in securing and maintaining public support for the
militant organizations. The book examines how these organizations
discursively construct the socio-political reality of their world,
in the process defining the Self and the Other. The Self becomes
umma, or the global Muslim community, while the Other becomes the
West, including the United States, Israel, and India. This book
presents an analysis of three historical moments-the assassination
of al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, the controversial YouTube video
Innocence of the Muslims, and the shooting of the Pakistani child
activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai. This analysis reveals
the discursive strategies used by the militant organizations to
create what Foucault calls regimes of truth and articulate
identities of the Self and the Other. The first of its kind, this
book provides an insight into the mind-set of extremists. It
presents a picture of the world that extremists construct through
their own discourse and explains how extremists try to win the
hearts and minds of mainstream Muslims in order to expand their
support base, seek donations, and find new recruits. Understanding
extremist narratives and the ways they feed the broader militant
discourse may yield more meaningful and effective strategies for
the West to communicate with mainstream Muslims.
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