POLI 340 Lecture Notes - 1982 Hama Massacre, Palestinian National Authority, Christian Fundamentalism
14 Mar 2014
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A varied of terms have been used to discuss aspects of islamist political movements. Islam: religion vs islamist: a movement that has the objective of bringnin more of a particular version of islam in public sphere. Fundamentalist: it is kinda prejotive or that it draws some some similarity with the christian fundamentalist. So theres some utility in the term and so there fundamentalist is quite useful. However when its used with reference to islamist movements, its used with reference to violent movements which blve that violence is an appropriate way to achieve their ideological views. Salafi: islamist with a conservative or fundamentalist view of islam who wanna return to that kinda islam that they thought was practiced at time of prophet. All religions have this continuum where some see religion very literal and unchangeable while there are others who blve it should be seen in some contextual sense. Takfiri: accusation that some one else isn"t really a muslim.
