Is Islamism a Threat?

Abstract

The historical debate on this subject is spoilt by an excess of securitisation, which is what we will call the T’ factor, where ‘T’ stands for terrorism.

The prevalence of this factor with respect to that of rights and freedom is one of the reasons for which many institutions and many researchers fail in their recipes and analysis.

The prevalence of the ‘T’ factor is due in primis to the fact that the state, through these forms of transitory organisations which the governments are, exercises a disproportionate almost absolute monopoly in this matter, which in some cases can actually be turned against them, as we will see.

Without maintaining an equilibrium in the two poles of binary logic in the description of a systemic and dynamic model, anti-terrorism or the politics of fighting radicalization risk being transformed into a pure political manipulation of power.