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Title: Establishing Official Islam? the Law and Strategy of Counter-Radicalization.
Author : Stanford Law School
Release Date : January 01, 2012
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 460 KB

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INTRODUCTION In the name of national security, the U.S. government as well as state and local governments are increasingly intervening in the religious lives of Muslims and into Islam itself. These interventions--which implicate initiatives from intelligence gathering and analysis to prison management to community outreach--form an essential part of what is now commonly called "counterradicalization." While the concept remains open-ended and undertheorized, the core intuition behind counter-radicalization is that the prevention of future violence requires official involvement in shaping the ideational currents that are thought to underpin that violence. The arrival of counter-radicalization on the domestic scene--it has been part of American foreign policy for a decade (1)--represents a significant, if unheralded, development in American counterterrorism. Indeed, some have even suggested that domestic counter-radicalization represents the signature counterterrorism policy of the Obama Administration. (2)

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