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In this chapter, we compare the substance and styles of activism of the different networks and how their strategies in style and content interacted with state and media. After a brief note on ethics, we will show that the networks used and mixed different styles of engagement: reject, reverse, accommodate and evade. Through these styles, the activists attempted to negotiate their ideas about being a Muslim and being an activist by trying to counter what they regarded as repression, subjection and humiliation by the so called unbelievers and instead opting for an alternative ideal. We end with discussing the relationship between the war in Syria, the de-politicisation of the networks and the different meanings of resistance.
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de Koning, M., Becker, C., Roex, I. (2020). A Comparative Discussion: The Counter-conducts of Militant Muslim Activists. In: Islamic Militant Activism in Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42207-3_6
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