Introduction

Are Muslim men troublemakers, or troubled? Currently, the truth lies somewhere in between. A few men are perpetrators, but many are victims of economic, political and, ironically enough, patriarchal socio-cultural oppression. In post-colonial societies, Muslim leadership has consistently failed to deliver within locally “modified” Western frameworks of governance. Worse is that the leadership has failed to provide an original/innovative “vision” and “agenda” for growth and prosperity to its people. Consequently the political agency of Muslim social capital, largely consisting of troubled but energetic young men, has been absorbed in Islamist and terrorist networks. This siphoning of Muslim social capital by terrorist networks has to be stopped.

Related Subject(s): Human Rights and Refugees