Fall 2021 OLLI Catalog

Discussion Groups
Jihadism 4.0:
How Jihadists Hijacked Islam
and Lived to Tell About It
Lessons from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Northern Africa
September 20
Monday | 11:30am PT
Registration Link: https://bit.ly/csudhollijihadism-fall21
Meeting ID: 841 2411 8817
Speaker: Dr. Hamoud Salhi, Associate Dean International Education
& Senior International Ofcer
Jihadists in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Northern Africa don’t defne Islam,
but they have come to be seen as true representative of at least one of
form of Islam. Since the 1950s, the Jihadists have gone through several
transformations, all of which veer away from Islam. From supporting
dictatorships in the Muslim world, claiming that corrupt leaders are better
than no leaders (Egypt), to proclaiming Jihad as a sixth pillar of Islam
(Afghanistan), to fghting for a state rather than the Umma or Muslim
community (Syria and Iraq), Jihadists have projected a form of Islam that is
slowly gaining ground on the real Islam. If Islam is not defned by Jihadists,
why then are non-Jihadists—for a lack of a better word—unable to dictate
their own narrative? Why is the Jihadists’ narrative more pronounced in
the world today than that of Islam?
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