Aux origines de l’extrémisme islamiste

Abstract

Are monotheistic religions factors in appeasing tensions or rather in compounding crises? This article aims to show that any religion claiming to hold absolute truth can only lead to dividing society, excluding the “other”, driving people to withdraw into themselves, or even to terrorism. To achieve that, we shall start with the Koranic Text in order to show how, all through the history of islam, the combination of power, knowledge and the masses has acted as a screen hiding the “ultimate” message of islam, that of carrying peace and freedom of conscience, with a view to perpetuating its “conjonctural” message that is subjecting people to its laws, forcibly or willingly.

Keywords

• kharijism
• hanbalism
• mû’tazilism
• ibn-Taymyya
• wahhabism
• revival