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  Olivier Roy - SourceWatch
Olivier Roy is senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research.
'Roy compared contemporary Islamic radicals with leftist radical groups of the 1970s, such as the Red Brigade in Italy and the Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany.
Roy cited the Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which calls for the non-violent reestablishment of an Islamic caliphate across the Middle East and Central Asia, as an example of the current trend.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Olivier_Roy   (500 words)

  
 Islam in a Changing World - Council on Foreign Relations
OLIVIER ROY: For the Dutch, it is obviously some sort of an earthquake, because not only it is one of the few political murders in the Netherlands, but also it means the end of some sort of Dutch dream, you know, of the positive perception of multiculturalism.
ROY: The problem is for me that this new generation of, you know, young radicals is— they have a problem: either they can root themselves in a Muslim community, find some sort of social and political demographic basis, you know, and manipulate the Muslim population to achieve that goal.
ROY: Well, I have the idea— the main critique about Ramadan is about the double-speech, you know, that he says one thing when he’s on the TV and one— other things when he’s teaching to the young Muslims in the suburbs.
www.cfr.org /publication/7533/islam_in_a_changing_world.html   (8002 words)

  
 An Interview With Olivier Roy
Roy: Pakistan is deliberately undermining the Karzaï regime.
Roy: The greatest challenge ahead is the ethnic divide between Pashtuns and non-Pashtuns, and more precisely the merging of Islamic fundamentalism with Pashtun identity, as illustrated by the coalition which took power in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
Roy: One of the first things to do is to coordinate the political and the military level among the international community.
www.jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=23393   (1275 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Failure of Political Islam: Books: Olivier Roy,Carol Volk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Roy claims that Islamism rejects political philosophy, since it sees no separation between religion and politics (unlike traditional Islamic culture, he is careful to point out, differentiating himself from the Orientalists), it sees no role for institutions, and sees "virtue" as the only necessary leadership quality.
Olivier Roy, in the tendency of another French scholar Gilles Kepel, challenges the clash of civilizations concept and suggests that Political islam has failed because it has proven itself incapable of bringing about desirable changes in the poltical and socio-economic spheres in the Islamic world.
Olivier Roy is basically the founder of the francophone position that Islamism is basically a failure and its nastier incarnations are the result of this failures rather than its successes.
www.amazon.com /Failure-Political-Islam-Olivier-Roy/dp/0674291417   (2985 words)

  
 Review of The Failure of Political Islam
For Roy, the former means the drive for political power, and the latter means focusing on the family and the mosque.
Roy is a very knowledgeable student of Islam, even a brilliant one, whose (well-translated) book is replete with fine insights and memorable epigrams.
Here, however, Roy misses the point: the realization that fundamentalism does not work could be years or decades off; in the meantime, as the Marxist-Leninist precedent shows, regimes can do a great deal of mischief to their own populace and the rest of the world.
www.danielpipes.org /article/659   (1341 words)

  
 Amazon.de: The Failure of Political Islam: English Books: Olivier Roy,Carol Volk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Roy perceptively argues that the attempt to create one universal Islamist state is doomed to failure because of the conflicts between Sunni and Shia forms and other ethnic differences in the Islamic world.
Olivier Roy demonstrates that the Islamic Fundamentalism of today is still the Third Worldism of the 1960s: populist politics and mixed economies of laissez-faire for the rich and subsidies for the poor.
In Roy's striking formulation, those marching today beneath Islam's green banners are the same as the "reds" of yesterday, with similarly dim prospects of success.
www.amazon.de /Failure-Political-Islam-Olivier-Roy/dp/0674291417   (763 words)

  
 Religioscope: Globalized Islam - Interview with Olivier Roy
According to Roy's analysis, contemporary Islamic projects are becoming increasingly disconnected from a particular territory, partly as a consequence of the failure of all attempts to build an Islamic state.
In this interview, Olivier Roy shares some of his observations, as well as developments in his analysis, with the readers of Religioscope.
Olivier Roy - The new forms of religiosity are becoming increasingly detached from traditional cultures and societies and tend to create new, purely religious communities, based on the “them-and-us” dichotomy.
religion.info /english/interviews/article_117.shtml   (1210 words)

  
 Isebrand.com: Olivier Roy: Terrorism's root causes are in globalization and radical religion mixing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Olivier Roy: Terrorism's root causes are in globalization and radical religion mixing
So, for Roy, the root causes of terrorism are at the nexus between globalization and radical religion.
Olivier Roy is a professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and is the author of Globalized Islam.
citizenship.typepad.com /isebrandcom/2005/07/olivier_roy_ter.html   (584 words)

  
 Mere Islam: T. J. Winter, Olivier Roy & Irshad Manji in Dialogue
Olivier Roy, prominent French academic and author of Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah (2003) and The Failure of Political Islam (1996).
That having been said, I recommended picking up one of Olivier Roy's books since he offers some interesting insights that are likely to enhance your understanding of what's going on in the world today.
Roy: "So this shows that the revolt in the name of Islam is not I would say backlash of the traditional Muslim identity against liberalisation, but on the contrary; it is seen by many uprooted young boys as the new cause to fight Society with a big 'S' and the US imperialism."
www.mereislam.info /2005/04/t-j-winter-olivier-roy-irshad-manji-in.html   (2409 words)

  
 Islamism's failure, Islamists' future Olivier Roy - openDemocracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Olivier Roy is research director in the humanities & social-sciences sector of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.
This article is an edited version of a talk on the nature and record of political Islam delivered by Olivier Roy on 11 October 2006 at the Institute for Public Policy Research in London.
This article is published by Olivier Roy, and openDemocracy.net under a Creative Commons licence.
www.opendemocracy.net /debates/article.jsp?id=5&debateId=57&articleId=4043   (1547 words)

  
 Regional Powers Cannot Achieve Victory - Olivier Roy at PostGlobal
Olivier Roy is a senior researcher at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research).
He currently lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) in Paris and has acted as consultant to the French Foreign Ministry (Center for Analysis and Forecast) since 1984.
Olivier Roy was also a consultant with UNOCA on Afghanistan in 1988, special OSCE representative to Tajikistan (August 1993 to February 1994) and headed the OSCE Mission for Tajikistan from February to October 1994.
blog.washingtonpost.com /postglobal/olivier_roy/2006/07/post_1.html   (708 words)

  
 Harvard University Press: The Failure of Political Islam by Olivier Roy
Olivier Roy's examination of 'political Islam' has already had an important impact on the study of Islamism.
Olivier Roy...has turned his attention to the phenomenon of Islamic radicalism with remarkable results.
Olivier Roy is Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and the author of Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan.
www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/ROYFAI.html?show=reviews   (446 words)

  
 Roy,Olivier Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
In a powerful corrective to this view, the French political philosopher Olivier Roy presents an entirely different verdict: political Islam is a...
In this new edition, Olivier Roy expands his penetrating study of the history, ideology and structures of the Afghan resistance movement to mid-1989.
Mariam Abou Zahab and Olivier Roy argue that the Taliban in Afghanistan was part of a much wider radical Islamist network in the region,...
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Roy,Olivier   (427 words)

  
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This was the piece with which Marc-Uwe Kling became the new champion at Slam 2006, the poetry slam for the German-speaking world.
Olivier Roy explains why Islamic terrorism is born in Europe.
Olivier Roy is director of research at the CNRS.
www.signandsight.com /features/296.html   (2751 words)

  
 CampusProgress.org | world on fire: What's wrong with Olivier Roy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
There's an op-ed in the New York Times today by Olivier Roy arguing that Iraq is not the underlying cause of al Qaeda terrorism.
Roy holds up as evidence that not many Iraqis or Afghans have been radicalized.
Ultimately, I think Roy misses a subtle point - people are more likely to buy into the jihadist message of al Qaeda that begets terrorism because of Iraq rather than "turning fundamentalist" because of the war.
www.campusprogress.org /page/community/post/petermjuul/B5L   (738 words)

  
 Olivier Roy's Homepage
Roy and M. Vetterli, Collaborating Hearing Aids, MSRI Workshop on Mathematics of Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks, 2006.
Roy and M. Vetterli, Distributed Compression in Acoustic Sensor Networks Using Oversampled A/D Conversion, IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol.
Roy and M. Vetterli, On the Asymptotic Distortion Behavior of the Distributed Karhunen-Loève Transform, Forty-Third Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, pp.
lcavwww.epfl.ch /~oroy   (366 words)

  
 Globalized Islam; The Search for a New Ummah; Olivier Roy
"Olivier Roy [is] one of the two most distinguished contemporary commentators on the Muslim Middle East and Central Asia.
Neofundamentalism has been gaining ground among a rootless Muslim youth—particularly among the second- and third-generation migrants in the West—and this phenomenon is feeding new forms of radicalism, ranging from support for Al Qaeda to the outright rejection of integration into Western society.
In this brilliant exegesis of the movement of Islam beyond traditional borders and its unwitting westernization, Olivier Roy argues that Islamic revival, or "re-Islamization," results from the efforts of westernized Muslims to assert their identity in a non-Muslim context.
www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231134983.HTM   (703 words)

  
 Secularism Confronts Islam; ; Olivier Roy
However, as Roy makes clear in this book, Muslim intellectuals have made it possible for Muslims to live concretely in a secularized world while maintaining the identity of a "true believer." They have formulated a language that recognizes two spaces: that of religion and that of the order of the world.
In recognizing this, Roy hopes to introduce a new element into the current debate concerning Islam and democracy.
Olivier Roy is a professor at EHESS, the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris, and a world authority on Islam and politics.
www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/978023114/9780231141024.HTM   (234 words)

  
 Whither Political Islam? (On Olivier Roy's & Gilles Kepel's books)
Ascribing the violence of one's adversaries to their culture is self-serving: it goes a long way toward absolving oneself of any responsibility.
The singular merit of two new books by Gilles Kepel and Olivier Roy is that they take the debate about the rise of political Islam beyond culture talk.
He dismisses "the culturalist approach" that treats Islam as "the issue" and that assumes it bears a relation to every preoccupation of the moment, from suicide bombings and jihad to democracy and secularism.
agonist.org /node/10915/print   (225 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Olivier Roy": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Olivier Roy, The Failure of Political Islam, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
Comme l'crit Olivier Roy' :  Dreux est devenue le symbole de la monte du Front national et apparat souvent comme un monstrueux cas...
Within the wider context of ex-Soviet Central Asia, Olivier Roy is more sanguine about indigenous networks of solidarity - such as farm collectives (kolkhoz), neighbourhood associations (mirahalla), and consultative groupings...
www.amazon.com /phrase/Olivier-Roy   (590 words)

  
 Nick Denton: Olivier Roy All the Afghan
And some people are rediscovering Olivier Roy, a French academic who has been studying Afghanistan since the Soviet invasion.
In an interview last year he talks of the Taliban being the revenge of the Pashtuns after Kabul fell to their rivals in 1992.
Highlighted in the recent article in American Prospect, a quote from Roy's assessment of opposition to Soviet occupation: "Even if the Russians get better at moving around quickly in search-and-destroy operations," he wrote, "they will not succeed in surrounding and wiping out the Mujahedin in significant numbers.
www.nickdenton.org /archives/002860.html   (216 words)

  
 Olivier Roy interview: Jihad's Stalinists and Leninists | Global Learning Objects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Olivier Roy interview: Jihad's Stalinists and Leninists
From afghan-info.com: Exclusive Azadi Afghan Radio interview with Afghanistan and Islamic affairs scholar Dr. Olivier Roy, Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS), France, and author of the new book "The New Central Asia - The Creation of Nations".
Roy talks about the "Stalinist" and "Leninist" divide that is the weaklink of the radical Islamic movement:
www.glo.org /?q=node/809   (484 words)

  
 Olivier Roy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since 1984, he has acted as a consultant to the French Foreign Ministry.
In 1996, he received his PhD in Political Science from the IEP.
Olivier Roy speaks about his book, "Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah"
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olivier_Roy   (316 words)

  
 Eurozine - Articles
It is a mistake to think that religous and political radicalism among European Muslims is a mere import from the cultures and conflicts of the Middle East.
It is above all a consequence of the globalization and Westernization of Islam, writes Olivier Roy.
If you want to comment on this article, please write a letter to the editor.
www.eurozine.com /articles/2006-08-17-roy-en.html   (1234 words)

  
 Olivier Roy Books, Book Price Comparison at 130 bookstores
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 interdisciplines
C.N.R.S. An on line paper by Olivier Roy on Neo-Fundamentalism
Olivier Roy is Research Director in the Humanities & Social Sciences at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and has been a consultant with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1984.
He undertook several journeys in Afghanistan during the Mujahideen resistance to the Soviet invasion of 1979 and then embarked on numerous trips to the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics, notably Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
www.interdisciplines.org /people/authors/olivier_roy   (163 words)

  
 Globalized Islam by Olivier Roy - The Globalist > > Global Religion
Globalized Islam by Olivier Roy - The Globalist > > Global Religion
Muslims, like other immigrants, have come to the West in search of better economic opportunities.
In this Globalist Interview, Olivier Roy — author of “Globalized Islam: The Search For a New Ummah” — explains that, due to globalization, these two groups actually have much more in common today than ever before.
www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=4742   (926 words)

  
 Conversation with Olivier Roy, cover page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
I'm Harry Kreisler of the Institute of International Studies.
Our guest today is Olivier Roy, who is a senior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris.
He is the author of numerous books, including The Failure of Political Islam and The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu /people2/Roy/roy-con0.html   (113 words)

  
 Whither Political Islam? (On Olivier Roy's & Gilles Kepel's books) | The Agonist
Transcript: Oliver Roy + Fouad Ajami: Global Islam
Was trying to suggest thinking something "out of the box" from which Roy and Kepel are speaking to.
To look at what they are writing from another perspective.
www.agonist.org /story/2005/1/3/141346/0699   (1294 words)

  
 AMCTV.com SHOW - Marathon Man
Goldman wrote both the novel and screenplay to this thriller with Olivier as a vicious Nazi war criminal on the loose in New York.
Unwittingly, graduate student Hoffman (the marathon runner of the title) finds himself embroiled in a convoluted plot involving stolen diamonds, his mysterious brother (Scheider), U.S. intelligence agents and perhaps the most famous dental scene in film history.
Richard Bright, William Devane, Tito Goya, Dustin Hoffman, Allen Joseph, Marthe Keller, Marc Lawrence, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, Fritz Weaver
www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=2129-1-1   (90 words)

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