Jihadi-Salafism in Afghanistan - beyond Taliban, al-Qaeda and Daesh: options for German foreign and development policy

Titel: Jihadi-Salafism in Afghanistan - beyond Taliban, al-Qaeda and Daesh: options for German foreign and development policy
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Veröffentlicht: Bonn, 2017
Umfang: Online-Ressource, 6 S.
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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BICC Policy Brief ; Bd. 6/2017
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Zusammenfassung: Abstract: Any new initiative at Islamic education sector reform must be preceded by a critical analysis of why previous reform attempts did not succeed, and religious scholars did not engage. The GoIRA should change budgeting priorities and consider allocating more resources to the construction and financing of community mosques and religious schools (madrassas) so that the field is not left to Wahhabi- and Salafi-inspired donors. External influences and funding for religious institutions regardless of sect should be cut off. The notion of Islam has increasingly become contested in Afghanistan due to the fragmentation of the political and religious landscape over the last decades. Jihadi interpretations of Islam have become widespread; Salafism and particularly militant Jihadi-Salafism is just one among several such ideologies. Additional funding lines should enable religious and non-religious civil society groups to launch grassroots and policy initiatives that could engage Afghans of all w