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The ‘War on Terror’, State Crime & RadicalizationISIS: The Special Relationship Between the United States, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia

The ‘War on Terror’, State Crime & Radicalization: ISIS: The Special Relationship Between the... [This chapter examines the emergence of ISIS through exploring how state practices and state crimes facilitated the creation of territories that ISIS could exploit to create a terrorist state. It also explores ISIS through considering its interpretation of Islam, its motivation to gain territory to establish a caliphate and its utilization of ‘soft targets’, foreign policy and religion to justify terrorism. This chapter demonstrates the similarities between the ideologies used by ISIS to radicalize individuals and the ideologies used by the United Kingdom, United States and Saudi Arabia in radicalizing individuals to fight communism in Afghanistan. The chapter also discusses the roles of the United States, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia in encouraging and promoting Wahhabism, the similarities between the Sharia law practised by Saudi Arabia and ISIS and how the United States and United Kingdom are complicit in the inter-state and intra-state crimes committed by Saudi Arabia.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-40137-5
Pages
181 –227
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-40138-2_6
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter examines the emergence of ISIS through exploring how state practices and state crimes facilitated the creation of territories that ISIS could exploit to create a terrorist state. It also explores ISIS through considering its interpretation of Islam, its motivation to gain territory to establish a caliphate and its utilization of ‘soft targets’, foreign policy and religion to justify terrorism. This chapter demonstrates the similarities between the ideologies used by ISIS to radicalize individuals and the ideologies used by the United Kingdom, United States and Saudi Arabia in radicalizing individuals to fight communism in Afghanistan. The chapter also discusses the roles of the United States, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia in encouraging and promoting Wahhabism, the similarities between the Sharia law practised by Saudi Arabia and ISIS and how the United States and United Kingdom are complicit in the inter-state and intra-state crimes committed by Saudi Arabia.]

Published: Apr 23, 2020

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