The Ideological Response Project is premised on the belief that terrorism is a by-product of extremism. It is neither poverty nor the lack of education, but ideological indoctrination that spawns and sustains extremism and terrorism. To reduce the threat of terrorism at a strategic level, ICPVTR seeks to formulate appropriate responses to challenge radical ideas.

Ideological response involves mapping the ideology of both extremist and terrorist groups in order to develop correct understanding of concepts such as jihad, fatwa, Syariah, Ijtihad etc, and issues involving the basis of relationships between Muslims and non-Muslims and the establishment of Islamic state. It would be necessary to engage religious scholars to provide counters to the extremist propaganda using the same texts which the radicals misuse and to disseminate the same among the wider community through appropriate channels.

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Striking the Roots of Radicalism: Reclaiming Islam's Intellectual Heritage	Download
Ideological Response to Terrorism and Extremism	Download
The diffusion of ideas in the war of Terror	Download
Coping with the threat of Jemaah Islamiyah – The Singapore Experience	Download
Assessing Strategies in Counter-Ideological Work and Practical Solutions to Radicalization in the Community	Download
Terrorism - The Outcome of a Culture of Hatred	Download
Responding to Terror Ideology on the Internet: The Singapore Experience	Download
Identifying Key Concerns of Jemaah Islamiyah: The Singapore Context	Download
An Ideological Response to Combating Terrorism – The Singapore Perspective	Download
Key considerations in counterideological work against terrorist ideology	Download
Countering the Ideology of Jemaah Islamiyah: A Point-by-Point Approach	Link
Questions and answers on jihad, Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mohamed Bin Ali	Download
Refuting the idea of jihad as a perpetual war between muslims and non-muslims, Muhammad Haniff Hassan, October 2006	Download
Contesting Islamists’ Absolutism On The Islamic State, Muhammad Haniff Hassan, June 2006	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, "Islam, Pluralism & Multi-Culturalism.", September 2005 This paper was published under IDSS Commentaries in September 2005	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, "Robbery In The Name of Jihad"  May 2005. This paper was published under IDSS Commentaries in May 2005	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “War, Peace and Neutrality: An Overview of Islamic Polity’s Basis of Inter-State Relations”, RSIS Working Paper Series, NO. 130, 28 June 2007	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Contextualising the fiqh – or law – of jihad”, RSIS Commentaries (25/2007), 3 April 2007	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “When does their jihad become my jihad?”, The Straits Times, 14 March 2007	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Revisiting Dar Al-Islam (Realm of Islam) and Dar Al-Harb (Realm of War)”, in RSIS Commentaries (1/2007), 4 January 2007	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Refuting the Idea of Jihad as a Perpetual War Between Muslims and Non-Muslims”, IDSS Commentaries (108/2006), 6 October 2006	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “The Mumbai Rail Bombing: Explaining Kashmiri’s Group Expanding Theatre of Operation”, IDSS Commentaries (64/2006), 17 July 2006	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Contesting Islamists’ Absolutism on the Islamic State”, IDSS Commentaries (52/2006), 14 June 2006	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Towards an index of Islamic governance”, IDSS Commentaries (36/2006), 17 May 2006	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Provoked? Four rules to guide Muslim response”, The Straits Times, 25 March 2006	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Recognising the teachers of religion: Some food for thought”, IDSS Commentaries (9/2006), 7 February 2006	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Community based initiatives against JI by Singapore’s Muslim community”, IDSS Commentaries (4/2006), 16 January 2006	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Can Islam be contextualised?”, IDSS Commentaries (66/2005), 30 September 2005	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Islam, Pluralism and Multi-culturalism”, IDSS Commentaries (63/2005), 9 September 2005	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Saudi Arabia After Fahd: Prospect For Change and Reform”, IDSS Commentaries (55/2005), 16 August 2005	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Norman Vasu, “Singaporean-ness as a Bulwark against terrorism”, IDSS Commentaries (31/2005), 8 June 2005	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Robbery in the name of jihad”, IDSS Commentaries (27/2005), 30 May 2005	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Yang Razali Kassim, “Who’s moderate voice? Hard to say”, The Straits Times, 18 May 2005	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Anti-Terror War: The Kingdom Strikes Back”, IDSS Commentaries (09/2005), 2 Mac 2005	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Trouble in Southern Thailand: What a stronger Thaksin can do?”, IDSS Commentaries (06/2005), 7 February 2005	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “The Fragmented Terrorist Organisation: Lesser or Larger Threat?”, IDSS Commentaries (63/2004), 20 December 2004	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Beslan School Massacre: Revenge in the Name of Islam?”, IDSS Commentaries (48/2004), 27 September 2004.	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Militants Hurting the Muslims that They Claim To Fight For”, The Straits Times, 17 September 2004	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Yang Razali Kassim, “Madrasah As Partners in Ideological War Against Terrorism”, IDSS Commentaries (44/2004), 17 September 2004	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Vigilante groups is unIslamic”, The Strait Times, 12 November 2004.	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mushahid Ali, “The Fight Against Terror: Psychological Defence, Ideological Response”, IDSS Commentaries(34/2004), 27 August 2004. Published in The Straits Times, “Fighting Terrorism From Ideological Front”, 31 August 2004	Download
Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mushahid Ali, “Osama bin Laden’s Peace Overture: A strategic shift or a new threat?”, IDSS Commentaries (11/2004), 19 April 2004	Download