Resumen

PAWLOWSKA, Agata. Construction of the figure of ‘islamic terrorist’ in the western political discourse. En-clav. pen [online]. 2022, vol.16, n.31, e483.  Epub 22-Ago-2022. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i31.483.

The objective of the present paper consists in disarticulating some parts of the dominant political narrative on the figure of the ‘Islamic terrorist’. It is proposed that Islamic terrorist is constructed in the western discourses as spectral enemy, therefore it results constitutively impossible to define and that enables the criminalization of the acts of resistance and rebellion to the existing power structure. Furthermore, it is argued that the Islamic terrorist is represented as evil which obstructs the critical public debate about this topic since the condemnatory moral judgment has already been stated beforehand. Moreover, it’s stated that the Islamic terrorist is described as a new enemy which conceals the familiar background of an old orientalist narrative that imposes on the Muslim, particularly Arab, and the paper of the inferior Other.

Palabras llave : Terrorism; racism; violence; orientalism.

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