Greetings from the cybercaliphate
Some Notes on Homeland Insecurity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7804636 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Martin Jones (0000-0002-2554-8158, The University of Queensland), M L R Smith (0000-0001-7530-0997, University of London) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 925-950 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2005.00495.x |
| OpenAlex | W1993693409 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 3 |
One of the paradoxical effects of the 7 July bombings in London was to expose the ambivalence in the British government's attempt to wage war on terror by forcefully prosecuting war against those who resort to jihad abroad, actively participating in coalitions of the wining whether in Afghanistan or Iraq, while affording some of Islamism's key ideologists and strategists a high degree of latitude in the United Kingdom itself. This indicates a number of contradictions in official policy that simultaneously recognizes the globalized threat from violent Islamic militancy while, under the rubric of multiculturalism, tolerating those very strains of Islamist radicalism, some of which draw upon the interdependent and transnational character of conflict, to render the UK vulnerable to those very same violent forces. Consequently, the British authorities displayed a studied indifference towards this developing transnational phenomenon both during the 1990s and in some respects even after the London bombings. To explore the curious character of the government's response to the Islamist threat requires the examination of the emergence of this radical ideological understanding and what it entails as a reaction to modernization and secularism in both thought and practice. The analysis explores how government policies often facilitated the non-negotiable identity politics of those promoting a pure, authentic and regenerated Islamic order both in the UK and abroad. This reflected a profound misunderstanding of the growing source and appeal of radical Islam that can be interpreted as a consequence of the slow-motion collision between modernity in its recent globalized form and an Islamic social character, which renders standard western modernization theory, and indeed, the notion of a 'social science' itself, deeply questionable
Homeland · Political science · Sociology · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Religion and World Politics
Addressing the schizophrenia of global Jihad
The Declining Theoretical and Practical Utility of ‘Bandwagoning’
Talking Tough or Talking Together? European Security Discourses towards the Mediterranean
Analogical reasoning and cyber security
Neither Muslim nor Other
The more you know, the less you understand
Responses
Constructing the ‘Ummah’ in European Security
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |