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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• van Santen, José C.M.

Titel

Boko Haram and female suicide bombers: An ‘Islamic’ terrorist organisation and gender

Ist Teil von

• Tijdschrift voor genderstudies, 2016-03, Vol.19 (1), p.83-106

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• At its foundation, the group is opposed to western education, which is related to and a remnant of the former colonial school system. [...]recently, he, the eldest son of a family of six children, still lived in the compound of his mother where we mourned his father’s death in 2005. Terrorism Terrorist organisations are characterised by anonymity and violation of ‘established norms’ (Laqueur, 1978, pp. 8, 125), they are not democratic, and they violate persons and matters in order to obtain their aims (Schwind, 1978, p. 25). Women partake in most terrorist organisations: within the terrorist cells’ operating in France, at least 40 percent of the operating members are women.5 Research on the women’s participation in the terrorist group RAF taught me that politicians blame women’s emancipation for their involvement and that also psychologists and other academics link it to women’s emancipation and called female participants even ‘phallic women’ (Van Santen, 1982. The majority of the media in ‘the West’ clearly feel that one could just refer to ‘Islam as an ideology’ to know their aims and motives, forgetting that Islam is a religion and not an ideology and that the cultural background of the various Islamic societies is far more important for the values of a community and its gender relations than religion. According to Mang (2013) and many other authors,7 also in Nigeria many Christians consider Islam to be a homogenous religion and, for long, BH and its activities stood for ‘Islam and its policies, and its ways...