Kumar Ramakrishna is the Provost's Chair in National Security
Studies and Head of the International Centre for Political Violence
and Terrorism Research at the S. Rajaratnam School of International
Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has
spoken on counterterrorism before local and international
audiences, published in numerous prestigious journals, and has been
described by Perspectives on Terrorism as "one of Southeast
Asia's
leading counterterrorism experts" for his research on
understanding, preventing, and countering violent extremism in
Southeast Asia.
It has often been claimed that 'Terrorism has no Religion,' Yet
major terrorist organizations claim to be acting in the name of
true religion and manage to radicalize thousands of young men and
women. Kumar Ramakrishna takes a hard look at the ambivalent
relationship between religion and violence--an honest and
persuasive analysis.
*Alex P. Schmid, Editor-in-Chief, Perspectives on Terrorism*
In a sweeping, rigorous, interdisciplinary volume that draws from
extensive writings of, and interviews with, extremists, Kumar
Ramakrishna asks us to take the religious extremist mindset
seriously, and shows that both violent and non-violent Islamist
extremism in Southeast Asia draw from the same theological DNA.
Through detailed looks into the lives of extremists in Indonesia,
Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, Ramakrishna shows how
they were immersed in an extremist ecosystem that drives their
outlook, and makes a major contribution to our understanding of
extremism in Southeast Asia.
*Justin V. Hastings, Professor of International Relations and
Comparative Politics, University of Sydney*
This book provides a very comprehensive and cogent analysis of
religious extremism, with a focus on disruptive challenges by
Salafist groups and regional states' responses to them in Southeast
Asia. Its diagnoses of the issues by a very seasoned scholar in the
field is highly illuminating and penetrating. The book deserves to
be read and its findings applied very widely.
*Amin Saikal, Adjunct Professor of Social Sciences, University of
Western Australia*
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