Islamic Radicalism And Occidentalism In Postcolonial Perspective

Abstract

In globalized world, the spread of Islamic Radicalism moves against the main actors of globalization. Radical Islam sees globalization as another episode of colonialism (neo-colonialism) that is full contained with Western interest. In other side, Occidentalism that has been declared as soft approach to respond Western tradition, in fact only did minimum efforts. Therefore, it seems that Islamic radicalism more dominates the global theatre than Occidentalism. This paper explores the dynamics of Islamic Radicalism and Occidentalism through Postcolonial perspective. Theories from Trinity of Postcolonial Thinkers - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha- are applied for this paper