Political Islam in Southeast Asia: Moderates, Radical and Terrorists

by Rabasa,Angel

• ISBN13: 9780198529118
• ISBN10: 0198529112
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-09-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This work provides an overview of the evolution of political Islam in South-east Asia. It goes on to analyze the sources of religious radicalism and assesses the regional terrorist and radical networks and describe how secular democratic institutions can be strengthened, and how moderate and tolerant tendencies can be promoted.

Author Biography

Dr. Angel Rabasa is a senior policy analyst with the RAND Corporation, specializing in regional security affairs. He is the author of numerous books and articles on South-east Asian security. Before joining RAND, Dr. Rabasa served in political and political-military positions in the U.S. Departments of State and Defense from 1976 to 1998. He has a B.A. and Ph.D. in history from Harvard University and was a Knox Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. He is the recipient of several State and Defense Department awards.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(6)
The external sources of Islamic radicalism	9	(2)
The domestic sources of Islamic radicalism	11	(2)
Chapter 1 The varieties of Islam in Southeast Asia	13	(12)
The complexity of Islam in Indonesia	14	(2)
The fusion of religion and ethnicity in Malaysia	16	(2)
Muslims in Singapore	18	(1)
The unique entity of Brunei Darussalam	19	(1)
Islam as the unifying factor in Moro identity	20	(1)
The Muslims of mainland Southeast Asia	21	(2)
Conclusion	23	(2)
Chapter 2 Indonesia: the Jihad project	25	(14)
Islam under the new order	26	(1)
Islam and post-new order politics	27	(1)
Laskar Jihad and the religious war in Eastern Indonesia	28	(3)
Islam and the war on terrorism	31	(2)
The Bali bombing and its aftermath	33	(2)
The Indonesian military and Islam	35	(2)
Conclusion	37	(2)
Chapter 3 Islamic militancy in Malaysia and Singapore	39	(8)
Malaysia: the slippery slope towards an Islamic state	39	(5)
Singapore: Islamic militancy in a multi-ethnic city-state	44	(1)
Conclusion	45	(2)
Chapter 4 Muslim separatism in the Philippines and Thailand	47	(12)
Mindanao: land of unfulfilled promises	47	(8)
Thailand: the waning of Muslim separatism	55	(1)
Conclusion	56	(3)
Chapter 5 Terrorist networks in Southeast Asia	59	(8)
The Jemaah Islamiyah network	59	(7)
The ASEAN response	66	(1)
Conclusion	67	(8)
The future of Southeast Asian Islam	67	(5)
The challenge for the West	72	(3)
Notes	75