Kovács Attila: A sí’ita politikai képi propaganda nyugati inspirációi

Western inspirations for Shi’ita political image propaganda Since the end of the Cold War, the Muslim world has become the “enemy image” for the West. Since 9.11, the idea of the “war against terrorism” is in practice the fight of Western culture and religion against Islam. Depsite of the fact that in the Christian world more and more people are turning away from God, westerners continue to believe in the existence of evil and quickly identify it with terrorism, terrorism with Islam. This study illustrates the relationship between radical – Shi’ite – Islamist and Western – religious, political and commercial – visuality through the visual propaganda tools of Islamic extremists. The study points out that Shi’ite visual political propaganda has adopted many symbols and visual elements from global and Western (Judeo-Christian, leftist and civil rights, commercial, etc.) visual culture, but that in most cases they have been transformed, reinterpreted, given completely new content and in many cases “Islamized”, so to speak.
Keywords: Islam, Shia, propaganda, fundamentalist, fight against terrorism