Globalized Islam By Olivier Roy - 816 Words

In Olivier Roy’s book, Globalized Islam, he writes about â€Å"propaganda targets individuals, not groups† as the strategy used â€Å"Islamists, when elaborating a political program, targets groups, and more precisely social groups (impoverished neo-urbanites, students from the lower and middle classes, and so on).† Roy continues on to share their reasoning for the method of targeting individuals, not groups [author’s italicization]. â€Å"This remains congruent with their strategy of going to the polls; an electorate is always a collective and anonymous entity.† Roy goes on to state why the new preachers use another method. â€Å"But the new preachers target individuals, for the simple reason that they do not have a global political and social project, except implementation of sharia.† In contrast he goes on to explain how the Taliban’s agenda differs. â€Å"Even the Taliban, who were ruling a ‘real country, never cared a bout implementing any economic or social program, but were exclusively concerned with sharia.† Consequently, individual Muslims that relocate from their own culture to migrate to the western world still remain well rooted in their religion despite the fact that no special accommodations are made for their religion. â€Å"No allowances are made for Muslims to abide naturally and easily by the tenets of their religion.† â€Å"Hence the implementation of binding religious obligations rests on the good goodwill of the believer, not on any external cultural pressure or a state’s legalShow MoreRelatedThe Recent Terrorist Attacks Of Paris And San Bernardino1841 Words   |  8 PagesMuslims or Western Europe are likely to be distinct, cohesive, and bitter, and the host countries have never learned to integrate newcomers that very occasionally are retentive of their ways, producing a variant of what the French scholar Olivier Roy calls â€Å"globalized Islam†: militant Islamic resentment at Western dominance, anti-imperialism exalted by revivalism (Leiken). Now the disconsolate Muslims produce offspring who are citizens of the countries by name but not culturally or socially. The youngerRead MoreThe Recent Terrorist Attacks Of Paris And San Bernardino1841 Words   |  8 PagesMuslims or Western Europe are likely to be distinct, cohesive, and bitter, and the host countries have never learned to integrate newcomers that very occasionally are retentive of their ways, producing a variant of what the French scholar Olivier Roy calls â€Å"globalized Islam†: militant Islamic resentment at Western dominance, anti-imperialism exalted by revivalism (Leiken). Now the disconsolate Muslims produce offspring who are citizens of the countries by name but not culturally or socially. The youngerRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesE SSAYS ON TWENTIETH-C ENTURY H ISTORY In the series Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig Also in this series: Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life Lisa M. Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture