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by Tim Pippard
The West's and the Saudi's dependence on oil has made the energy sector a target for Al-Qaeda. The article discusses past and current threats to the energy sector and the motives, capabilities and limitations of Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula and beyond.
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by Donald Holbrook
Selective Qur’anic referencing comprises a core element of radical Islamist discourse endorsing militancy. These are often embedded in wider religious deliberations which also cite numerous Hadith and other religious sources to support a given argument. This article seeks to analyse and document the way in which specific verses of the Qur’an are used to legitimise justifications put forward for violence and targeting in a selected corpus of English- language extremist Islamist material. The article concludes that application of the teachings of the Qur’an is altered and tailored in major militant Islamist treatises to match their political narrative, thus violating strict Salafistic demands for literal application of the Qur’an’s message.
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by Paul Kamolnick
This article provides a critique of Atran’s and Axelrod’s conceptualization and application of bargaining theory to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Key notions such as ‘ the sacred,’ and ‘the symbolic’ are either not defined at all or equivocally operationalized. The intrinsic relation between the symbolic and material levels of a phenomenon are misunderstood. Finally, the authors fail to modify their instrumental-rational bargaining paradigm to account for the uniquely existentialist challenges at the base of the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation.
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by Carl Anthony Wege
Hizballah views Iran’s theocratic doctrine of clerical rule (velayat-e-faqih) as their marja (‘source of emulation’). This theocratic marja undergirds Hizballah’s malevolent Islamicism which is rooted in Lebanon’s Bekka valley. The valley is both anchor and heart of Hizballah and precipitates the regions drift toward Iran.
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by Scott Atran & Robert Axelrod
Professor Kamolnick argues that a Science article of ours that we cited in our interview with Ramadan Shallah in the last issue of Perspectives on Terrorism,which was meant to give an indication to the reader of the kinds of issues we are exploring, was conceptually confused. We allegedly failed to give adequate definitions of “the sacred” and “the symbolic,” the distinctions we did provide were “equivocally operationalized,” and we misunderstood the difference between what is symbolic and what is material.
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