By Charlene Tan

Islamic faculties, specially madrasahs, were considered as websites of indoctrination for Muslim scholars and militants. a few educators and fogeys within the usa have additionally looked introductory classes on Islam in a few public faculties as indoctrinatory. yet what can we suggest via "indoctrination"? And is Islamic schooling indoctrinatory? This ebook significantly discusses the concept that of indoctrination within the context of Islamic schooling. It explains that indoctrination happens while someone holds to one of those ideals referred to as regulate ideals that lead to ideological totalism. utilizing Indonesia as an illustrative case research, the publication expounds at the stipulations for an indoctrinatory culture to exist and thrive. Examples comprise the Islamic college co-founded by means of Abu Bakar Ba’asyir and the militant service provider Jemaah Islamiyah. The e-book additional proposes how you can counter and stay away from indoctrination via formal, non-formal, and casual schooling. It argues for the construction and advertising of educative traditions which are underpinned by means of spiritual pluralism, robust rationality, and powerful autonomy. Examples of such educative Muslim traditions in Indonesia can be highlighted. Combining philosophical inquiry with empirical examine, this publication is a well timed contribution to the research of up to date and infrequently debatable concerns in Islamic schooling.

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She had been kidnapped by her own father who wanted to protect her from the gang. The reason? She, as well as the rest of the gang, was a member of a cult group that brainwashed its members. The cult group leader who called himself “Grandfather” had indoctrinated them with the beliefs in Native American religion and instigated them to carry out the killing to reclaim the local Apache lands. Ingrid’s father told the investigators that she started to act strange when she joined the cult group. She kept repeating words such as “trespasser”, “Grandfather” and “Ga’he”—jargons understood only by the cult group.

But where does brainwashing fit in? Like indoctrination, brainwashing exists in various degrees and shares intersecting points with indoctrination in some cases. 39 It is instructive to note that there is no consensus among scholars on the relationship between brainwashing and indoctrination. On the one hand, there are researchers who argue that brainwashing is distinct from indoctrination, on the basis that the former necessarily involves coercion. 40 However, while I agree that brainwashing is usually coercive (due to its association with Chinese Communist brainwashing of prisoners of war), indoctrination may be coercive too.

The small number is ensured by removing all external stimuli that have the potential to be held as control beliefs by the victim. An artificial environment is imposed where the victim, usually isolated from her family and community, is exposed to only the beliefs privileged by the indoctrinator. The selected control beliefs are usually expressed in abstract and metaphysical terms such as “God”, “truth”, “freedom”, and “progress”. They are further represented neatly in a binary “for us or against us” worldview.

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