Author name: Arif Humayun

Criterion Quarterly

Arif Humayun

The author is President and Co-Founder of Circle of Peace, an international initiative to strengthen the bonds of humanity and compassion across faith communities. An Anatomy Of Muslim Revolutionary Extremism And Roadmap Leading Out Of The Islamist Labyrinth The Radicalizing Ideology – its root causes

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An Anatomy Of Muslim Revolutionary Extremism And Roadmap Leading Out Of The Islamist Labyrinth

Arif Humayun* Abstract  This paper will explore the colonial and post-colonial historical narratives that underlie Islamist extremism, the evolution of the ideologies of extremism the corruption and despotism that characterize many Muslim-majority societies today, the socio-economic conditions that underlie religious-political extremism, and the global influences that have nurtured terrorism. Moreover, the political and military responses

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The Radicalizing Ideology – its root causes

By Arif Humayun[1] Circle of Peace (www.CircleOfPeaceOnLine.org) Abstract This paper will establish a correlation between the development of a radicalizing ideology in Pakistan and its effects on Muslim attitudes across the world. While this flawed ideology was being developed and slowly propagated, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 70s catalyzed the process by

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