spiked-politics | Article | Fundamentalism begins at home

Posted on December 16th, 2004 by martijn.
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spiked-politics | Article | Fundamentalism begins at home
Fundamentalism begins at home

A review of Roy’s book Globalisation of Islam.

Roy notes that cyberspace is full of people that could be ‘Mr Anybody’ pronouncing on what ‘Islam means�’.

These more individualised forms of Islam are linked to fundamentalist violence. ‘Dutch public opinion is blaming foreign culture for the murder of Theo van Gogh’, Roy tells me, ‘but if you look at the background of the guy who did that, he is fluent in Dutch, he is a Dutch citizen, and you even have two converts from an American father and a Dutch mother who played a big role in the plot. Clearly the more radical violence is linked to the deterritorialisation and globalisation of Islam’.

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