Two Violence as Contention in the Egyptian Islamic Movement
Two Violence as Contention in the Egyptian Islamic Movement
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埃及伊斯兰运动中的两种暴力争论
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2003
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通讯作者:
Quintan Wiktorowicz
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Mohammed M. Hafez;Quintan Wiktorowicz
broiling broader publics in con®ict. In Algeria, the civil war between a nebulous Islamic insurgency and the military-backed regime led to more than 120,000 casualties, including substantial civilian deaths. The brutality of the con®ict, which included widespread massacres of women, children, and the elderly, captured international attention and raised concerns about the nature of Islamic activism. This violence was reproduced at lower levels throughout the Middle East, including Jordan, Yemen, Kuwait, Bahrain, Libya, the Sudan, and Egypt. At the same time, a transnational network of radical Sala¤s loosely af¤liated with Osama bin Laden attacked U.S. targets in Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Kenya, and Yemen. Bin Laden’s February 1998 fatwa (Islamic legal opinion) legitimizing attacks against U.S. military targets and civilians sparked nervous debates in Western circles about how to address rising levels of Islamic-sponsored terrorism, a debate given new urgency since the September 11 attacks. Outside the Middle East, Islamic groups engaged in violent forms of contention in China, South Africa, Eritrea, Kashmir, the Philippines, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Dagestan, rede¤ning the geography of violent Islamic struggles. Although radical tactics are at the fringe of Islamic movements, the growing use of violence in the 1990s raises important questions about Islamic activism and social movement contention. In particular, given the broad repertoire of contention, which includes preaching, religious lessons, social and welfare services, publications, and general da"wa (religious proselytizing) activities, why did a number of Islamists turn to violence? More generically, why do social movements utilize violence as contention, given other tactics? What explains cross-national and diachronic variance in the level of violence?