Description
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the systematic construction of the image of the Other (that is, non-Muslims) by two radical Islamic Groups, Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia and Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia. The author documents discourse patterns in the groups' publications and speeches stereotyping non-Muslims as hostile towards Islam and imagining Islam's imminent victory after an inevitable clash with all other civilizations. Although these groups do not engage in physical violence, the author categorizes their efforts to stereotype non-Muslims as "symbolic violence" and counterproductive because of the religious and ethnic pluralism of Indonesian society.
Table of ContentsForeword
Introduction
--Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia
--Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia
The Image of the Other As Enemy
--Constructing the Image
Analyzing the Image of the Other
--Roots of the Image
--Discourse Patterns Used in Constucting the Image
Symbolic Violence
Flaws in the Fundamentalist Arguments
--Critiquing the Four-Fold Discourse
--Another Flawed Arguement: Perpetual Conflict
--Misleading Selections from Religious Texts
Fundamentalism as a Resistence Movement
Summary and Conclusions
Notes
References
