GLOBAL TERRORISM AND ISLAM IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER: THE CONSTRUCTION OF ISLAMIC TERROR PERCEPTION THROUGH ISIS IN THE WESTERN WORLD
YENİ DÜNYA DÜZENİNDE KÜRESEL TERÖRİZM VE İSLAM: BATI DÜNYASINDA İSLAMİ TERÖR ALGISININ DAEŞ ÜZERİNDEN İNŞASI

Author : Mehmet Zeki DUMAN
Number of pages : 23-40

Abstract

In this paper I focus on roots of international scale terrorist attacks occurred in particularly the Middle East countries and from time to time in Europe and America and the relationship of these acts with political Islam in the last fifty years. Especially after Gulf War, America's colonialist policies that aim to re-establish the hegemonic domination of Western world as it was reinforced with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan under "New World Order" caused strengthening of fundamentalist movements in Muslim communities that is fostered by militant pietism and claiming to fight against forces threatening the sacred values. In these societies where religious traditions dominate, while opposition to west was radicalized on the one hand it caused radical movements to spread on the other hand. However, the basic justification of this paper is the use of ISIS by Western Societies in order to identify Islam with terrorism and to impose this perception all over the world as a result of orientalist perspective against East and particularly against Islam as a historical attitude.

Keywords

International Terrorism, Islamic Terror Perception, Islamophobia, Orientalism, ISIS.

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