Mussings on ideologies
A very interesting article has tried to go to the roots of the motivations behind radicalism and terrorism.
What this is about, as Tony Blair has argued, is fanaticism. Radical ideologies of hate and violence have often seduced disaffected young men searching for some great cause. Forty years ago they would have embraced Leninist revolutionary dogma, with Che Guevara as the bin Laden of his day. Today, for Muslims, it is a violent interpretation of Islamic fundamentalism. Born in the Middle East, it has spread like a virus across the Muslim world and into the Islamic diaspora in the West.
We’re fighting a military battle against a phenomenon that is largely nonmilitary. In a battle of ideas, no one bullet will win.
An interesting observation is that an ideological battle cannot be fought with conventional force. It is to be discredited and replaced by a vision of hope.
It can heppen anywhere?
….increasingly we are seeing attacks either in the West or in Iraq or in Egypt that are purely nihilistic […] We are seeing terrorism that is an end in itself […] And that has no end in sight.
The aims of radicalism, its seeds and current trends can be seen here.
