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Jemaah Islamiyah: of kin and kind
Jemaah Islamiyah: von Sippschaft und Abstammung
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Abstract Convicted terrorists from Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) have attested to using the Internet in one way or another during their operations, from sending messages to one another to looking for extremist fatwas online to justify their actions. That said, however, one would be hard pressed to prove the primacy ... view more
Convicted terrorists from Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) have attested to using the Internet in one way or another during their operations, from sending messages to one another to looking for extremist fatwas online to justify their actions. That said, however, one would be hard pressed to prove the primacy of the Internet in their transition to violence. More often than not, more traditional elements – blood relations and marriage ties – remain the key to individual religious radicalization and political violence in Southeast Asia. This paper revisits these kinship linkages as well as quasi-kinship ones that include teacher–disciple bonds and the wider fraternity of ikhwan-ship (brotherhood) with particular regard to JI. Keeping counter-terrorism efforts in context is important or else governments could run the risk of carelessly allocating vital resources to less immediate concerns.... view less
Keywords
islamism; political movement; Internet; radicalism; attempted assassination; brotherhood; Indonesia; religious factors; propensity to violence; Southeast Asia; kinship; violence; family; religion; terrorism; Philippines
Classification
Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Method
descriptive study
Free Keywords
Political Science; International Studies; Indonesia; Jemaah Islamiyah; Social coercion; violence; political violence; 1990-2010
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 157-175
Journal
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 29 (2010) 2
ISSN
1868-4882
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works