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Singh, Rashmi. "Political Islam and Suicide Operations in the Israeli-Palestinian Context: The Case of Hamas" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA, Feb 28, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p180049_index.html>

Singh, R. , 2007-02-28 "Political Islam and Suicide Operations in the Israeli-Palestinian Context: The Case of Hamas" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, Hilton Chicago, CHICAGO, IL, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p180049_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This paper strives to illustrate the role of religion in suicide operations conducted specifically by the Hamas in the Israeli-Palestinian arena of conflict. In doing so it contributes to the debate on the relationship between violence, Islam and the contemporary world and demonstrate that Hamas�s use of religious rhetoric to justify violence in fact facilitates a distinctly modern political agenda. I believe that the recent (re)focus on theology as an alternative value system is also engendering an othering process predicated on a confrontation between religion and the state. This othering process, echoing the West�s colonial-orientalist legacy, increasingly frames Muslims and Islam as implacable enemies to the Western Enlightenment project of modernity which uncoupled state and religion centuries ago. Therefore this paper also seeks to illustrate that, for the Hamas, there is no conflict between state, modernity and religion. Instead Hamas�s political ambitions are specifically state-oriented and the political language of religion, in this case of political Islam, is used specifically to grant legitimacy to the movement. Having done this, the paper will also locate jihad and consequently martyrdom operations as central themes in the political Islamic rhetoric adopted by Hamas. This paper thus argues that Hamas�s ability to resort to suicide operations is rooted in a radical interpretation of jihad and martyrdom and demonstrates how the build up of political Islamic rhetoric in the territories has increasingly facilitated the legitimisation of martyrdom operations.

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