Jurnal Penelitian Keislaman
Vol. 19 No. 2 (2023): Contemporary Islamic Studies

The Battle Between Moderate and Fundamentalist Islamic Groups in Covid-19 Memes on Social Media

Asyari, Akhmad (Unknown)
Jumarim, Jumarim (Unknown)
Kadri, Kadri (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Dec 2023

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic not only leaves grief for its survivors but also triggers the netizens to create memes containing religious narratives, especially Islam. This research focuses on uncovering meme narratives about COVID-19 which contain the content of religious thought battles between moderate Islamic groups and fundamentalist Islamic groups. The results show that the COVID-19 global disaster has been used as an arena for fighting as well as promoting the thoughts of moderate Islamic groups versus fundamentalists by using memes as an instrument. The thinking of moderate Islamic groups is represented through COVID-19 memes that are rational and tolerant, while COVID-19 memes containing radical thinking content and blasphemy against certain religions and countries mark the thinking of fundamentalist Islamic groups.

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Journal Info

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jpk

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Subject

Religion Humanities Education Social Sciences Other

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JPK: Jurnal Penelitian Keislaman (p-ISSN 2580-9652, e-ISSN 1829-6491) adalah jurnal ilmiah peer-review dan open access yang dikelola dan diterbitkan Pusat Penelitian dan Publikasi Ilmuah Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN ) Mataram. Jurnal ini terbit secara berkala dua kali setahun, yakni pada bulan Juni ...