Merah and Breivik: A Reflection of the European Identity Crisis
While the cases of Anders Behring Breivik and Mohamed Merah clearly demonstrate the impact of social networks and the role of the Internet and prison on the radicalization process, the killings in Norway and France in fact expose larger issues that exist within contemporary Europe, including profoun...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Taylor & Francis
[2015]
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Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
Jahr: 2015, Band: 26, Heft: 2, Seiten: 183-204 |
| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik BJ Islam KBA Westeuropa TK Neueste Zeit ZB Soziologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Islam
B Terrorism B European Identity B Far Right B Secularism |
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| Zusammenfassung: | While the cases of Anders Behring Breivik and Mohamed Merah clearly demonstrate the impact of social networks and the role of the Internet and prison on the radicalization process, the killings in Norway and France in fact expose larger issues that exist within contemporary Europe, including profound identity crises manifesting as Islamist extremism in some quarters and far-right extremism in others. This article discusses the individual pathways towards extremism of Merah and Breivik, the interconnectivity of two extremisms and how these can be understood as mirrored manifestations of an identity crisis in Europe.1 |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9311 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2015.1015246 |