Islamophobia
and radicals
Do you
know the word “Islamophobia”? This word
means one of the phobias. There are some people who have a fear of Islam.
“Islamophobia is actually very old. In the
French colony of Algeria a preconceived negative image was used to deprive the
colonized of their property rights and civil rights: according to the décret Crémieux (1870) they could
become French citizens and recover their rights as citizens insofar as they
rejected their Muslim faith – which of course very few did. If they did not,
they lost their rights and liberties and, thus, became fair game for the
colonizers.”(Catherine Delcroix 2011)
We can say islamophobia is discrimination
against Muslims. After 9.11, many American people came to feel fear,
uneasiness, and hatred when they see Muslim. I understand there are many people
they remind terrorism, war or conflict when they see Muslims. Actually, I was
one of them. But I become not one of them after I study a little about Islam. The
important thing is there are radicals who act terrorism.
Radicals are muslim who want to establish
Islam nation by violence way as Jihad. They extremely hate the intervention of
heathen and they act terrorism to express their retaliation.
If you hear the word “radical”, you
may remind Osama Bin Laden or Taliban. But radical is not only them. Following
groups act terrorism and act in their own place.
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・Hamas ─────
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Hamas means “Islamic Resistance Movement”
and it also means “a violent emotion” in Arabic.
The alliance against Israel composed of Palestinian
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・Islamic Salvation
Front─
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The organization that
formed against national liberation front in Algeria.
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・Taliban ─────
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The Islamic fundamentalism
power in Afghanistan. The word “Taliban” means “students” in Arabic. This is
formed by student who are educated and trained theologically and military in
the Islamic theological seminary. Taliban ruled Afghanistan and confronted
Shia Islam(the sect that recognize only Ali, the 4th Islam Residuum,
and his descendant as Caliph). A wirepuller is Osama bin Laden.
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・Hezbollah ─────
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The word “Hezbollah”
means “a party of god”. The Islamic fundamentalism power in Lebanon. This was
formed by support by Iran and confront the military of Lebanon that help Israel
based on support by Iran and Syria.
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What should International society do to restraint the act of
radicals? The big reason of act of radical is the attitude of America. They try
to stop terrorism by military power. Islamic people watched the misery pictures
that American military ill-treat Iraqi. So young people hate America and that
is help for radicals because angry young people become easy to be influenced by
radicals. So, international society, especially America, should not take aggressive
attitude. And most important thing is to support moderate Islam leaders. As I write
from the 1st blog, Islam is not dangerous religion and Muslim have
tender heart and strong belief in god. So, they have strong sense of unity. If
international society support appropriate leader, Islam country become really
strong country. The first thing we should is to learn about Islam and stop the
discrimination on Muslim.
What is Islamic fundamentalism? (2003). Periodic
lecture. Retrieved Jury 16,2012 from http://www.wombat.zaq.ne.jp/matsumuro/LEC13-10.html
Tadashi,M.(2006) Modern Islamic fundamentalism and
terrorism. The foreign legislation.229.pp228-244Retrieved jury 16, 2012 from http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/data/publication/legis/228/022815.pdf
Catherine D.(2011) Negotiating Islamophobia: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. GLOBAL DIALOGUE
2.2 pp3-5 Retrieved Jury 16, 2012 from http://www.isa-sociology.org/global-dialogue/2011/11/negotiating-islamophobia-exit-voice-and-loyalty/
