Abstract
The demise of the socialist camp was regarded as an end to ideological conflicts, and many claimed that there was an absolute liberal triumph over others, which implied “the end of history” indeed. However, developments following the end of the Cold War have consistently proved that not all actors of the international politics have shared liberal values. Instead, fundamentalist movements and radical organizations are increasingly becoming a serious concern today. Al-Qaeda, which offers a Salafist way of thinking, plays an important role in this respect. The article argues that al-Qaeda presents a model for other radical terrorist organizations such as DEASH, which are posing a threat to several countries causing disorder and may trigger more chaotic security environment in the future.
Derviş Fikret Ünal: Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs as career diplomat; however, this article reflects only his own views and analysis.
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Notes
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The word jihad means a struggle or fight against the enemies of Islam (Oxford Dictionary). In a linguistic sense, the word does not mean “holy war,” but we commonly face its political use, which might cause misunderstandings or religious resentments/sensibilities. Thus, in this article, we avoid any offensive meaning of the word of jihad.
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This argument is quoted from al-Zawahiri’s book: Zawahiri (1991), The Bitter Harvest: The Brotherhood in Sixty Years. See in Ibrahim (2007).
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John L. Esposito, who is a professor of religion and international affairs and founding director of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, gives information on the history of suicide bombing in his book entitled “Unholy War: Terror in the name of Islam”: “On February 25, 1994, Dr. Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish settler who had emigrated to Israel from the United States, walked into the Mosque of the Patriarch in Hebron and opened fire, killing twenty-nine Muslims worshipers during their Friday congregational prayer. In response, Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) introduced a new type of warfare in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, suicide bombing. Promising swift revenge for the Hebron massacre, the Hamas militia, the Qassem Brigade, undertook operations within Israel itself, in Galilee, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv. In Israel-Palestine, the use of suicide bombing increased exponentially during the second (al-Aqsa) intifada (uprising), which began in September 2000” (Esposito, 2002e).
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Hüseyin Bağcı is quoting from Donald Rumsfeld who gave a speech at the 42nd Munich Conference on Security in Munich, Germany on February 5, 2006. (From Hüseyin Bağcı 2008).
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Ünal, D.F., Demirel, M. (2019). Al-Qaeda: A Model for “Sustainable Disorder”?. In: Erçetin, Ş., Potas, N. (eds) Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2017. ICCLS 2017. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89875-9_21
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