Patterns of Communication within an Islamic Fundamentalist Organization

Abstract

Communication represents a fundamental pillar of human civilization. In my academic
paper, I focused on illustrating an anti-example of this pillar. My academic research illustrates
the extremist and radical shape of communication. The Islamic State represents for me the most
pertinent empirical content with which I can work, its structure, design and content being the
most relevant for my academic research. ISIS was a group built upon the extremist form of
communication.
I have chosen this topic because of its main features: volatility, universality, novelty,
consistent informational foundation, and authenticity. The main objectives of this research
paper are the analyze the incommensurable capacity of communication and speech in
metamorphosing mental and ideological maps, observing the effects of this communicational
determinism within social, economic, military, political and religious spheres, and identify the
causality of communication, its components and the usage of all these factors within the process
of forging religious fundamentalism and combatting and eradicating such anti-examples. Using
qualitative methodological tools: content analysis, speech analysis and case study, I managed
to offer answers to my research questions, observing how an Islamic fundamentalist
organization succeeded to shape ideological maps only by creating and adapting
communicational patterns to its utopic ideas and desiderates. Such an academic analysis
exhibited the incommensurable power of communication and its powerful effects regarding
constructivism.