Fallacy of Militant Ideology: Competing Ideologies and Conflict among Militants, the Muslim World and the West Marath Munir Masood

This book highlights the conflict between jihadist militants and the West as essentially ideological in character. Although the militants were influenced by socio-political factors, they have always looked to religion to justify their acts of violence. It has serious implications internalized by Muslim societies, with the boundaries of faith changed by the interplay of socio-political variables.Violence emerged in Muslim societies as a means of emancipation or identity when the state could not resolve the conflict situation.

It reinterprets the primary sources, unravels the historical and socio-political constructs, unmasks the heroes and enemies, challenges the dichotomies between theory and practice, re-establishes the boundaries between heresy and faith, and attempts to This book, exposing the fallacy of the narrative evolved by the militants, offers a counter narrative.