Islamic Ideology & Extremism: Bangladesh Perspective

Abstract

The relationship between Islamic ideology, extremism and terrorism has been the source of much controversy and dispute between western scholars, policy makers and defenders of the faith who have all contested the subject on diametrically opposed grounds and perspectives more precisely after the events of 9/11. Some trace this new interest in Islam in the West to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in 2001 but this ignores the long and often dogmatic history that has preceded between these two great but ‗antagonistic‘ civilizations that largely fell short of an outbreak of open hostility precisely due to economic development observed with the new phase of 21st Century millennium order.