Munir Masood Marath is a senior civil servant in Pakistan, currently serving as City Police Officer, Multan. Previously, he has served as Director General of the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA), Pakistan. He has also served in the Counter Terrorism Department in Punjab, and in different districts of Punjab, including Multan, Chakwal and Layyah, as head of the district police. He holds a PhD in Political Islam from Government College University in Lahore, Pakistan.

'Ideology is the centre of gravity of terrorism, extremism and exclusivism. Many in government and in the Muslim community do not understand the depth and dimensions of it. That is why the threat is elusive and has not been eliminated. Without understanding the belief system, no threat group can be fought efficiently and defeated effectively. Fallacy of Militant Ideology by Munir Masood Marath provides that comprehensive understanding for governments and partners to fight the current and emerging threat.'Rohan Gunaratna, Founder of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research and Professor of Security Studies at Nanyang Technological University Singapore'Munir Masood Marath judiciously dissects the idea that Islamist militantism in Pakistan is a response to the ongoing impact of colonialism and postcolonialism, in particular in the Pakistani context. The abstraction of history causes Islamist extremists to act as pragmatists in the pursuit of ideological goals, not religionists in the pursuit of eschatology. Terrorism enacted in these ways is about politics, not religion. This book is a must-read for scholars, practitioners, and students exploring the framing of terrorism and radicalisation, and the misplaced roles played by those who seek to explain Islamist terrorism with allusions to the tenets of early Islam as the primary reason.'Tahir Abbas, Professor of Critical Terrorism Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University in The Hague, Netherlands, and author of Countering Violent Extremism (2021)

• Introduction 1. Nature of Conflict 2. Heresy of Ideas 3. Polemics Revisited 4. Codifications of Violence 5. Codes of War 6. Killing Fields 7. Fuel of Faith: Pakistan – A Case Study 8. Counter Narrative Conclusion

Munir Masood Marath is a senior civil servant in Pakistan, currently serving as City Police Officer, Multan. Previously, he has served as Director General of the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA), Pakistan. He has also served in the Counter Terrorism Department in Punjab, and in different districts of Punjab, including Multan, Chakwal and Layyah, as head of the district police. He holds a PhD in Political Islam from Government College University in Lahore, Pakistan.

'Ideology is the centre of gravity of terrorism, extremism and exclusivism. Many in government and in the Muslim community do not understand the depth and dimensions of it. That is why the threat is elusive and has not been eliminated. Without understanding the belief system, no threat group can be fought efficiently and defeated effectively. Fallacy of Militant Ideology by Munir Masood Marath provides that comprehensive understanding for governments and partners to fight the current and emerging threat.'Rohan Gunaratna, Founder of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research and Professor of Security Studies at Nanyang Technological University Singapore'Munir Masood Marath judiciously dissects the idea that Islamist militantism in Pakistan is a response to the ongoing impact of colonialism and postcolonialism, in particular in the Pakistani context. The abstraction of history causes Islamist extremists to act as pragmatists in the pursuit of ideological goals, not religionists in the pursuit of eschatology. Terrorism enacted in these ways is about politics, not religion. This book is a must-read for scholars, practitioners, and students exploring the framing of terrorism and radicalisation, and the misplaced roles played by those who seek to explain Islamist terrorism with allusions to the tenets of early Islam as the primary reason.'Tahir Abbas, Professor of Critical Terrorism Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University in The Hague, Netherlands, and author of Countering Violent Extremism (2021)

• Introduction 1. Nature of Conflict 2. Heresy of Ideas 3. Polemics Revisited 4. Codifications of Violence 5. Codes of War 6. Killing Fields 7. Fuel of Faith: Pakistan – A Case Study 8. Counter Narrative Conclusion

Munir Masood Marath is a senior civil servant in Pakistan, currently serving as City Police Officer, Multan. Previously, he has served as Director General of the National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA), Pakistan. He has also served in the Counter Terrorism Department in Punjab, and in different districts of Punjab, including Multan, Chakwal and Layyah, as head of the district police. He holds a PhD in Political Islam from Government College University in Lahore, Pakistan.

'Ideology is the centre of gravity of terrorism, extremism and exclusivism. Many in government and in the Muslim community do not understand the depth and dimensions of it. That is why the threat is elusive and has not been eliminated. Without understanding the belief system, no threat group can be fought efficiently and defeated effectively. Fallacy of Militant Ideology by Munir Masood Marath provides that comprehensive understanding for governments and partners to fight the current and emerging threat.'Rohan Gunaratna, Founder of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research and Professor of Security Studies at Nanyang Technological University Singapore'Munir Masood Marath judiciously dissects the idea that Islamist militantism in Pakistan is a response to the ongoing impact of colonialism and postcolonialism, in particular in the Pakistani context. The abstraction of history causes Islamist extremists to act as pragmatists in the pursuit of ideological goals, not religionists in the pursuit of eschatology. Terrorism enacted in these ways is about politics, not religion. This book is a must-read for scholars, practitioners, and students exploring the framing of terrorism and radicalisation, and the misplaced roles played by those who seek to explain Islamist terrorism with allusions to the tenets of early Islam as the primary reason.'Tahir Abbas, Professor of Critical Terrorism Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University in The Hague, Netherlands, and author of Countering Violent Extremism (2021)

• Introduction 1. Nature of Conflict 2. Heresy of Ideas 3. Polemics Revisited 4. Codifications of Violence 5. Codes of War 6. Killing Fields 7. Fuel of Faith: Pakistan – A Case Study 8. Counter Narrative Conclusion