Semiotics of Suicide Operation in Islamic Takfiri Groups (Case Study: ISIL in Iraq)
Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Associate Professor in Political Science, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad
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Ph.D Student of Political Science, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad
Abstract
In Suicide operation, suicide bombers sacrifiy their life to kill others. This operation has killed many people in the Muslim countries for three decades. These days, takfiris have made suicide operation as a common and violent tactic in sectarian conflicts and the death arising from suicide operation has become a political form related to power. In Iraqi ISIL, which has been studied in this article, suicide bombers have chosen a new approach to death byaccelerating death with eagerness.In order to decoding the meaning of suicide attacks in extremist groups and answering to this question that what does the suicide attack of ISIL mean?, based on the "visual semiotics" and by analyzing the images of ISIL suicide bombers in Iraq, This article has found that "Desire to death marks the "identity seeking" of ISIL elements through "immortality" Arising from arbitrary death and denying of rivals identities.
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