Maximalist Islamic Education as a Response to Terror: Some Thoughts on Unconditional Action

Autor/inn/en	Waghid, Yusef; Davids, Nuraan
Titel	Maximalist Islamic Education as a Response to Terror: Some Thoughts on Unconditional Action
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 47 (2015) 13-14, S.1477-1492 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1080/00131857.2014.958125
Schlagwörter	Islam; Violence; Muslims; Terrorism; Religious Education; Social Change; Correlation; Risk; Prosocial Behavior; Prevention + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gewalt; Muslim; Muslimin; Terrorismus; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Sozialer Wandel; Korrelation; Risiko; Prävention; Vorbeugung
Abstract	Inasmuch as Muslim governments all over the world dissociate themselves from despicable acts of terror, few can deny the brutality and violence perpetrated especially by those in authoritative positions like political governments against humanity. Poignant examples are the ongoing massacre of Muslim communities in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan by those government or rebel forces intent on eliminating the other whom they happen to find unworthy of living. This article attempts to map Islamic education's response to violence and terror often perpetrated against people considered to be in vehement disagreement with another, for instance, Muslim rebel forces assassinating Christians in Syria and destroying ancient monasteries, Muslim "jihadist" fighters kidnapping and assassinating people in revengeful acts of terror and Muslim government militia quelling resistant forces that oppose the government's so-called reformist agenda. In arguing against any form of violence, we show how Islamic education cannot and should not be associated with any act of violence. Put differently, we take issue with any act of violence even if minimally applied to disrupt acts of violence. On the contrary, we argue that Islamic education is intimately connected to the practice of public deliberation that engenders a community of becoming that will always undermine violence. We develop our argument in the following way: firstly, we give an account of a maximalist view of Islamic education in relation to the notion of a Muslim community in becoming; secondly, in relation to Agamben's seminal thoughts on potentiality and becoming, we show that a Muslim community in becoming is averse to violence; finally, we argue as to how forgiveness, risk-taking and civility as instances of deliberation can counteract terror, more specifically on the part of a Muslim community in potentiality and becoming. (As Provided).
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