Theoterrorism : from incident to precedent / Paul Cliteur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cliteur, P. B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Prevention.

Terrorism--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

250 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

Contents:

1 The Rudi Carrell Affair in Germany p. 21

Carrell v. Khomeini p. 23

Khomeini's letter to Gorbachev p. 24

The Iran-Iraq War p. 27

Carrell's earlier spoofs p. 29

Apologies to Iran p. 31

More apologies and more controversies p. 34

A new film p. 35

2 The Rudi Carrell Affair in the Netherlands p. 39

A discussion between the minister and a journalist p. 40

The Dutch Parliament on the Carrell Affair p. 43

Carrell and other affairs p. 45

The importance of humor p. 48

The Carrell Affair as precedent p. 49

Telephone justice p. 51

The meaning of Carrell's apology p. 53

Subdued tone of conversation p. 55

A new sort of religious behavior p. 57

Sense of humor and human emotions p. 60

Not about freedom of the press p. 61

3 The Coherence of Theoterrorism p. 65

Aboutaleb: the Mayor of Rotterdam p. 69

The "village idiot" of Amsterdam p. 72

The theoterrorists' profession of faith p. 76

The Woolwich attack p. 78

The Woolwich attack and the London bombings of 2005 p. 80

The Woolwich attack and the murder of Van Gogh p. 81

The theoterrorists argument analyzed p. 83

Theocracy and democracy p. 85

Two schools of thought p. 86

The debate about the role of Islam p. 90

Attacks on mosques p. 91

The Netherlands, Denmark, and Great Britain p. 93

4 The Danish Cartoon Affair p. 97

What are cartoons? p. 99

Terrorizing the laicist state p. 100

In good faith p. 102

Why were the cartoons published? p. 104

What did the Cartoon Affair prove? p. 107

The dark sides of globalization p. 107

Reactions to the cartoons p. 109

Shouting fire and "senseless provocation" p. 111

Can only Muslims criticize Islam? p. 112

Tony Benn's call to "respect" for religion p. 113

Thomas Jefferson's religious heterodoxy p. 114

From cartoons to scholarly work: Jytte Klausen p. 116

The refusal of Yale University Press to republish the cartoons p. 118

Attacks and convictions p. 121

5 The Rushdie Affair and Charles Taylor p. 123

Backing for Khomeini's judgment in the Iranian Parliament p. 125

Khamenei's sermon on the Rushdie Affair p. 127

The Islamist response p. 129

Rushdie's apology p. 131

Not a clash of civilizations but of visions p. 133

The secular West against the religious Rest? p. 135

Rushdie's own defense: the centrality of doubt p. 140

The debate about revelation p. 143

The right to express a humanist view of life p. 145

"Wade through a filthy drain" p. 148

The multiculturalist response of Taylor, Dummett, and others p. 150

The later Taylor p. 153

6 The Rushdie Affair and Michael Dummett p. 159

The legal and the moral p. 161

Michael Dummett and the cause of anti-racism p. 164

Dummett on Rushdie p. 166

The tragedy of being an honorary white p. 169

Whose pain? p. 171

President Carter on the role of religion in brokering peace p. 175

Rushdie knew what he was doing p. 178

Rushdie, Nietzsche, Freud, and Spinoza p. 180

Contemporary iconoclasts despised p. 181

The realist response of John Berger and John Le Carré p. 183

John Le Carré revisited and book burning p. 184

Withdraw the book until a calmer time has come p. 187

The political response and the press p. 188

Some reactions by foreign states p. 190

Other religious leaders p. 191

Is reaching out a wise course to take? p. 194

7 Modern hostage taking p. 199

Hostage taking in general p. 201

Modern hostage taking p. 204

Why modern hostage taking is so effective p. 206

Contagious indignation p. 210

The Kouachi Brothers' final declaration of loyalty p. 213

Their force or our weakness? p. 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789463722728

9463722726

OCLC:

1083703589