Muslim extremists: who is speaking out against them?
When a Muslim-American citizen tries to set off a car bomb in New York’s Times Square, many fear that the radicalization of all Muslims is well under way in Islamic communities at home and abroad. Many Muslims around the world also are worried about this prospect, and are working to defeat violent extremists within their communities. But they don’t always get attention – from the media, from policymakers or from academic researchers. A $4.9 million dollar research project led by ASU’s Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, “Finding Allies for the War of Words: Mapping the Diffusion and Influence of Counter-Radical Muslim Discourse,” is seeking to change that. The project, which involves an international team of researchers, will examine what Muslims in the key regions of West Africa, Western Europe and Southeast Asia are doing to counter and thwart the advance of radicalization. “Many in the part of the world I study (Indonesia) are becoming increasingly concerned by what they
