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Moderate Muslims
Moderate Islam and ''moderate Muslim'' are labels that are used within counterterrorism discourse as the complement of "Islamic extremism" and imply that supporting Islamic terrorism is the characteristic of a "radical" faction within Islam, and a "moderate" faction of Muslims denounces extremist violence such as Islamic terrorism, militant jihadism and Islamic extremism, radical Islamism. Moderation in Islam and moderate Islam are also terms that occur as interpretation of the Islamic concepts of ''wasatiyyah (Islamic term), wasatiyyah'' or ''wasat'' (the middle way, centre, balanced, best) as well as ''Iqtisad''اقتصاد (right way, middle way, honest, truthful way) and ''Qasd''قصد. Those terms are used in the Quran, such as to describe the Muslim community: Moderate views, in the first sense, are widespread according to opinion polls. A majority in eleven Sunni Muslim countries is very negative towards the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Islamic State. Moderate perc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counterterrorism
Counterterrorism (also spelled counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, incorporates the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, business, and intelligence agencies use to combat or eliminate terrorism. Counterterrorism strategies are a government's motivation to use the instruments of national power to defeat terrorists, the organizations they maintain, and the networks they contain. If definitions of terrorism are part of a broader insurgency, counterterrorism may employ counterinsurgency measures. The United States Armed Forces uses the term foreign internal defense for programs that support other countries' attempts to suppress insurgency, lawlessness, or subversion, or to reduce the conditions under which threats to national security may develop. History The first counter-terrorism body formed was the Special Irish Branch of the Metropolitan Police, later renamed the Special Branch after it expanded it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
