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Jihadi-Salafism. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 76
The book explores possible reasons why people are
drawn to violent Islamist groups. This is done by
mapping psychological mechanisms which might be
effective in the process of making individuals
receptive to the jihadi-Salafi ideology. The book's
perspective stems from the conviction that the
structural conditions in a given society are
decisive in the propagation of radical oppositional
groups.
The psychological mechanism known as the sour-grapes
syndrome will serve to illustrate the effect of the
socio-economic conditions in the Middle East. In
Jean de La Fontaine's fable, a fox decides that the
grapes he can not reach are sour and thus not worth
having. In the current context I will argue that
some of the aversion towards Western style
government and social order, stems from this
mechanism; as the western world's standard of living
and individual freedom appear unattainable to people
living in many Muslim countries, they react by
opposing these values.
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