Hamás: Islámský terorismus ve Svaté zemi

by Massimo Introvigne

In Italian. What is it, who is Hamas? The public knows this movement especially the relentless struggle and terrorist attacks by suicide that has implemented against Israel. But where does Hamas really? What do you want? Can (could) be silenced by simply military actions, or is it now so ingrained that be a factor in any future scenario of Palestine? The book Introvigne, founder of Cesnur (Center for Studies on New Religions) in Turin, describes in a little more than 100 pages the roots of the movement, its ideology and the difficult relationship with Palestinian nationalism, and then analyze the phenomenon of suicide terrorism. Hamas, the fundamentalist movement that since December 1987 fights back hard against Israel calling for the establishment of an Islamic state in Palestine, the public knows especially terrorist attacks by suicide. But where does Hamas really? What do you want? Can be silenced by simply military actions, or is it now so ingrained that be an unavoidable factor in any future scenario of Palestine? Introvigne describes its roots in the activities in Palestine, since their origins, the Muslim Brotherhood - the international association which fundamentalist Hamas derives - the ideology and the difficult relationship with Palestinian nationalism of Arafat. Research (which also offers for the first time an Italian translation of the status of Hamas) then analyzes in detail the choice of suicide terrorism and the training of those who choose this particular form of "martyrdom": a choice essentially religious , which can not be reduced with the simple political or economic factors, also not absent. Suicide terrorism, says the author, is only one aspect of Hamas, which actually draws its strength from a complex web of cultural and religious activities established in Palestine for decades, and the force of the international radical Islamic fundamentalism.

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About the author

Italian sociologist and intellectual property consultant. Founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Author of tens of books and articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the "Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia" ("Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy") and is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the "Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). In June 2012 he has been appointed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs chairperson of the newly instituted Observatory of Religious Liberty, created by the Ministry in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale. (source: Wikipedia)