COMPARISON OF AL-QAEDA WITH ANARCHISTS: VIEWPOINT IN MODERN TERROROLOGY
In this article the author considers the concept which has appeared recently in modern terrorology. A number of authors prove, that modern Islamic terrorists are similar to anarchists. Professor Gelvin’s article situates Al-Qaeda and similar jihad movements within the category of anarchism. They long time have been associated with bombs and outrage and acts of violence that it causes desire to lead, to draw parallels between the anarchists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and contemporary terrorists. Other researchers cautiously concern to such point of view. They criticize some positions, address to historic facts. A task of the author of article became the analysis and criticism of weaknesses of this concept. The author considers that this predictive judgment has been formed prematurely.
Keywords: terrorology, terrorism, Al-Qaeda, anarchism, jihad, caliphate, islamists, partisan
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Issue: 6, 2012
Pages: 69 — 76
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