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| Title: | Jihad against drugs in Cape Town: A discourse-centred analysis |
| Author: | Tayob, Abdulkader I. |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Periodical: | Social Dynamics |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | Summer |
| Pages: | 23-29 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | Islam organized crime drugs Urbanization and Migration Law, Human Rights and Violence Health and Nutrition |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533959608458609 |
| Abstract: | The PAGAD, the People Against Gangsterism and Druglords, poses some serious questions for the new South Africa. Although it declares itself a multireligious body, its rhetoric and grassroot support express unmistakable Islamic characteristics. A discourse of Islamic involvement in social and political affairs is clearly evident in PAGAD. Two broad political tendencies are discernible: a nationalist tendency, which joined the larger democratic movement in South Africa, and an internationalist tendency, which rejected the negotiated settlement. However, PAGAD's discourse has not been unequivocally Islamist: PAGAD leaders appeal for a disciplined focus on the issue of crime and drugs, and not on the State. The movement's relations with the Muslims Judicial Council and local imams reveal even more contradictory dimensions of the 'fundamentalist' movement. By way of conclusion the author predicts that sectarian religious groups pose a danger to themselves; Islamist social and political rhetoric in a democratic South Africa is bound to come to terms with the discourse dictated by the majority. Bibliogr. |
