The greatest threat to democracy and security comes from the extreme right and extreme Islamism. What does it really mean to want an Islamic state, what is the violation, and what is continuity measured against liberal democracy, ask Bård Larsen in this article.
Bård Larsen, Historian Civita
A week ago, was held an impressive demonstration in the streets of Oslo against the brutal Islamists of the Islamic state (IS). The fight against extremism in Europe is in many ways a sisyfosoppgave. But IS is so rabid that they are at odds with already defined extremists.
The greatest threat to democracy and security comes from the extreme right and extreme Islamism. Also Islamism is influenced by characteristics of the extreme right, as cultural particularism and antiuniversalisme (where only Muslims are part of the legitimate community).
Bård Larsen, historian Civita
Islamism is also a strict theocratic interpretation of that religion, law and politics are inseparable, where “religion is politics and politics is religion,” which Øystein Sørensen wrote. Sharia laws to “regulate everything from political institutions to people’s everyday life in the Islamic community.”
Main stand
We have to distinguish between radical Islamists who use violence as a tool, and Islamists that will impose an Islamic state by using other means. Whatever position is Islam an ideology that has a considerable distance to liberal democracy, and that translated into the normal political scale, is very radical. It should be discussed thoroughly.
There are some who claim that Islam and democracy are not compatible. It is demonstrably wrong and not subject to this article. Islamism is a political ideology and political ideologies will and should be the subject of sincere and clarifying dispute.
The Prophet’s Ummah has wished death and destruction upon their enemies for a long time. Learning Friends often go beyond learning their masters and sooner or later someone will take the challenge seriously. The environment around the Prophet’s Ummah has so far generated approximately 60 syriakrigere. It requires a certain courage to enlist in the war, the percentage will be looking at something like this. But what does the 60 on Islamism sympathetic surrounding areas
Supported death penalty
Although the focus now has over time been most extremist movement Prophet’s Ummah, it has far greater youth organization Islam Net gotten any less attention. IslamNet have at least 1,000 members and 14,000 friends on Facebook and can be said to be a major player in public. In March, they held a big meeting where the majority of the 1,500 audience supported the death penalty for adultery.
Youth Department at Oslo Mosque Tawfiiq Islamic Centre, which was one of the supporters of the Oslo marker, the texts shelves that IS stones a woman to death for adultery on their Facebook pages.
There are a number of such extreme messages on the web, and they can be interpreted in alarmistisk direction or obskuriteter. But they are there.
To wish death to innocent people with a religious justification is extremely authoritarian and, even though this does not always mean that you are a supporter of a defined totalitarian ideology. Often it may equally be due to lack of knowledge of fundamental rules in a liberal democracy. So it is a complicated and complex causal picture that emerges. How should meet in public does not, however, be particularly mysterious. It is difficult to know how widespread Islamism in Norway. The preached in some mosques. Extremist fanaticism among young Muslims Trumpeted often on social media and attracts (undeserved much?) Attention.
Nothing new
Young Muslim’s quest for extreme ideas may be due to alienation, social or geopolitical conditions.
However, the vast majority of young Muslims are not violent, it is something that trigger – and always has triggered extremists – at the other end of the motivation sequence: Ideology, faith , psychology and victim mentality. The quest for absolute identity markers need to be contrarian and perhaps a confirmation of felt or real otherness.
Jihadists and radical Islamists are, as Paul Berman has pointed out in Terror and Liberalism, not unlike European left extremist terrorist organizations such as the Baader-Meinhof and Red Brigades. It is a kind of logic that people with a lot of anger in him seeking political solutions that reflect the mind. Berman calls it blodskulter. In this case, the means and the symbols have greater appeal than the targets. In the 1970s sympathized about 25 percent of the West German youth under 30 years of Baader-Meinhof. Many of the group’s violent offenders came from a completely “normal” background.
Radical losers
Islamists imagines that Islam and Islamic culture is a constant size, anti-modern in form, while the western modernism – that the liberal and humanistic – is rotten to the root.
Modernity, the civilizational framework, as modern technology, however, can have its benefits. Not infrequently we see jihadists from Syria with Nike shoes, Iphones and other advanced technologies. They put out executions on social media, but cultivates a medieval understanding of people and beliefs.
Beheading Videos posted on YouTube and downloaded by logged angry young men in Europe. A bumpy ride then, and he who does not cling to fall off. A minority unable. The relationship between fiction and reality are blurred.
Hans Enzensberger has featured jihadists radical losers: A person who feels worthless look at others as worthless and find their counterparts in dehumanizing ideology.
And we know from history: The sinister combination of complexes and megalomania. Radical Islamism also cultivates the notion that every problem has its cause and origin of “the other.”
The clarifying conversation
If you do not understand that there are several explanations for radicalism than economic or social, can understand neither the cultural, ideological and emotional allures extreme ideas can get. When one finds neither the tools to fight it.
Will a hard and confrontational line against authoritarian Islam act as a deterrent? Some research suggests that extreme ideas can be nurtured to become isolated. On the other hand, not the public conversation set in a hostage situation because of the probability calculations. All political ideologies are attacking all.
We need to know roughly where we have each other in fundamental human rights and rule of law issues in order to maintain the high level of trust that characterizes the Norwegian society. Democracy and the welfare state rests on that trust. Ad-hoc declarations to follow the laws of the country you live in, as we have seen from other Islamic Council, should be the subject of a critical eye.
There are certainly more moderate Islamism. The idea of an Islamic state is Islamic because learning and not foreign to many Muslims. What does it mean in practice? Its supporters represent a political ideology, statements about politics and is therefore part of the public conversation: What do Islamists on the liberal rule of law (separation of powers), freedom of expression, women’s rights, homosexuality, pluralism and democracy? What does it really mean to want an Islamic state, what is the violation, and what is continuity measured against liberal democracy?
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