Salafi Jihad’s Version and Coercion to World Peace: An Islamic Educational Perspective

Religious extremism at present, is a critical issue that threatens global peace especially the congruous image of Islam. The engrossments of some Muslim societies to salafi jihadi’s extreme ideology, where Muslim scholars inversely disagree, however have exposed weakness in contemporary Islamic education system. Accordingly, this study concentrates on education analysis of Salafi jihadi’s radical movement as to apprehend their thought. Due to the application of inductive, deductive and comparative methods, researcher analyzes correlation between Khawarij extremism in the early days of Islam to Salafi jihadi, as well as development of contemporary extremism. The findings suggest, since failure to understand Islamic teachings within Islamic education discipline, subsequently has possess to extremism, thus it requires revaluation of education system in order to counteract from early stage.