David C. Rapoport
Autor de The Morality of Terrorism: Religious and Secular Justifications
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- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1929-01-07
- Género
- male
- Ocupaciones
- political scientist
university professor - Organizaciones
- University of California, Los Angeles
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- #196,089
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- 5.0
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- 1
- ISBNs
- 26
One instructive incident is the assassination of President Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt on October 6, 1981. "He seemed to be a rational and desirable alternative to the anti-Western proponents of violent recourse in Middle Easter politics" (p. 365). In short, "the events which led to Sadat's assassination and the discussions that followed it are framed by the signal texts and events in early Islamic civilization" (p. 366). One of the discussion points was a fatwa, which based on Islamic reasoning, concluded that Sadat should die. Martin addresses a key issue in that Westeners tend to misunderstand Islamic reasoning. "Too often the texts of the past and other civilizations are appropriated for our own scholarly discourses--out of context, as it were--and thus not understood, especially when they involve conflict and violence" (p. 367).
In conclusion, Islamic religious violence should be understood for what it is: Islamic and violent.… (más)