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| Citation | Abuza, Zachary. "Education and Radicalization: Jemaah Islamiyah Recruitment in Southeast Asia," in The Making of a Terrorist, Vol. 1: Recruitment, edited by James J.F. Forest (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2005). |
| Topic 1 | Terrorist Strategies and Tactics |
| Topic 2 | Religion as a Mobilizing Force |
| Topic 3 | Case Studies |
| Country | Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia |
| Abstract | Abuza explores the role of education-related dimensions of recruitment by Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a terrorist group in Indonesia affiliated with Al Qaida. In the Muslim world of Southeast Asia, network-based recruitment is focused on four central factors: kinship, mosque, madrasa and friendship. Education is the commonality between those, and thus plays an important role in Islamist extremist recruitment throughout Southeast Asia. Abuza's chapter examines how JI has used Islamic educational networks and madrasas - called pesantrens in Indonesia or pondoks in Thailand and Cambodia - as centers of recruitment and the transmission of Wahhabi and Salafi principles. JI established these madrasas to be used as centers of recruitment and indoctrination, and the graduates of this school are a who's who of today's Southeast Asian terrorists. In his concluding remarks, Abuza reflects on the implications of U.S. foreign policy and the global war on terror, suggesting that new approaches are warranted, but unlikely. [JF] |
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