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The Prevalence of Extreme Middle-Eastern Ideologies among Some Nigerians

International Journal of Social Science Studies

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Title The Prevalence of Extreme Middle-Eastern Ideologies among Some Nigerians
 
Creator Ahmed, AG
David Audu, Moses
Loza, Wagdy
Maximenco, Artur
 
Description Over the past decade, a small extremist Islamic sect agitating against Western civilization has grown to become the biggest challenge to Nigerian internal security, a serious threat to international security and peace, and has earned the country the unenviable international reputation of a terrorist state. The radicalization of members of the group is driven majorly by extreme Middle-Eastern Islamic religious ideologies. In this study, 99 Nigerian participants (51 Christians and 48 Muslims) completed the Assessment and Treatment of Radicalization Scale (ATRS; Loza, 2007; formally the Belief Diversity Scale, BDS; Loza, 2007). The ATRS is a 33-item, six subscale instrument that is designed to quantitatively measure Middle-Eastern extremist ideologies in areas of risk reported in the literature. Results demonstrated reliability and validity of the ATRS as well as indicated the prevalence of Middle-Eastern extremists’ ideologies among Nigerian Muslims. Current findings are consistent with those obtained from previous studies. These findings suggest that the ATRS could be used as an objective tool to measure Middle-Eastern religious extremism.
 
Publisher Redfame Publishing
 
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Date 2013-06-29
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/167
10.11114/ijsss.v1i2.167
 
Source International Journal of Social Science Studies; Vol 1, No 2 (2013); 161-167
2324-8041
2324-8033
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/167/161