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The causes underlying the attacks and the motivations of the apprentice jihadis are numerous and complex. François Burgat – in what some call Third World analyses – draws a link between the attacks and postcolonial suffering, identification with the Palestinian struggle, and protest against Western interventions in the Middle East. He underlines a fundamental dimension of political Islam, i.e. (geo)politics that one tends to neglect in order to avoid lumping together various issues and to avoid an Islamophobic perspective. Alain Bertho’s anthropological and psychosociological approach relativizes the role of Islam, a new makeshift vehicle for a generational and nihilistic revolt, the fruit of our disillusioned epoch. It is less a question of the radicalization of Islam than an Islamization of a pre-existing radicalness.
These interpretations provide elements that are indispensable to understanding the phenomenon but are far from being the only ones. This talk inaugurates a cycle of quarterly meetings with eminent experts on this subject: Jihad: beyond comprehension? In partnership with Dakira.
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