Rethinking Islamism The Ideology of the New Terror

Meghnad Desai, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Study in Global Governance Meghnad Desai — 2007

While Islamism may be draped in religious imagery and suffused by apocalyptic language, it nevertheless is similar in nature to secular ideologies of terror. The author holds that once this is properly appreciated, the ways to defeat it will become much more evident.