Failure by nation-states to implement policies that include and empower vulnerable young people lies at the heart of why organisations like the Islamic State are succeeding.
EXCLUSIVE | Trump Wednesday called Mohammad Sharifullah the 'top terrorist' in the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan's Kabul airport, leading to the deaths of 13 US military personnel.
Pakistan saw 1,000+ terror attacks last year. The Institute for Economics and Peace’s report highlights concerns over terrorism in Africa, with Burkina Faso topping the list.
More than 1,400 officers will be stationed at known hotspots, emergency services will be out in full force and there will be bag and personal searches of carnival goers.
IS said it targetted vehicle carrying the Chinese citizen Wednesday. China urged Taliban administration for stronger security for its citizens and projects in Afghanistan.
Like other lone-wolf killers, the narrative around Shamsud-Din Jabbar is that he was seduced by online Islamist propaganda. While this is entirely true, it is also intellectually lazy.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-yr-old Texas native, was killed in a shootout with police after the rampage, which also injured dozens of people & has been labeled by FBI as an act of terrorism.
There was little Shia-Sunni conflict in the pre-colonial era. In early 20th century, the struggle for political power sharpened the boundaries, increasingly leading to violence.
Kabul police said all 6 killed Monday were civilians and did not say what the target was. Islamic State, however, claimed 45 people including Taliban members had been killed.
Rizwan, the eldermost son of an ex-section officer at Jamia, was on run. Alleged to be a key suspect involved in Pune’s ISIS module, Rizwan was caught in Delhi's Tughlakabad.
India’s largest carmaker, Maruti-Suzuki, opened a massive railway siding inside its Manesar factory, which will transport vehicles from this plant to the rest of India.
US hit Fordow with 30,000-pound bunker bombs, while it fired tomahawk missiles at Natanz & Isfahan. A US official said the strikes were complete & no follow-up attacks were expected.
Though I find the false equivalence (“the members of jihadist groups aren’t dissimilar to recruits to criminal street gangs or, for that matter, Hindu-nationalist vigilante groups”), this is nonetheless concerning for the parts of the world that have not embraced this madness and normalised it.
Besides the military interventions that are already strong if bearing little fruit, we must acknowledge the power of outreach (“Dawah”) in encouraging/inciting thousands if not millions to “join the caravan.”
This article was a solid read until it started to downplay the religious fanataicsm that comes from the book, quotes the book, and lives and dies for the rewards promised in the book.
Socioeconomic factors may influence one’s vulnerability to radicalisation but this article regrettably tries to paint them as the alpha and the omega of radicalism. While loneliness, racism, exclusion ,and economic distress may make one susceptible to being radicalised, at the end of they day, it is a belief system they embrace, and kill and die in accordance with its diktats, handpicking those designated infidels, hypocrites, and apostates per the definitions of that belief system.
To give an analogy – smoking raises your risk of lung cancer, but this article is akin to claiming that smoking is lung cancer.
But the icing on the cake? This article totally lost me where the author equated radical groups like the Daesh to Hindu nationalism. This is blatant, shameless, pandering to the very forces that morally support radicalism from the periphery, their weapons being demagoguery and intellectualisation of extremism.
Though I find the false equivalence (“the members of jihadist groups aren’t dissimilar to recruits to criminal street gangs or, for that matter, Hindu-nationalist vigilante groups”), this is nonetheless concerning for the parts of the world that have not embraced this madness and normalised it.
Besides the military interventions that are already strong if bearing little fruit, we must acknowledge the power of outreach (“Dawah”) in encouraging/inciting thousands if not millions to “join the caravan.”
This article was a solid read until it started to downplay the religious fanataicsm that comes from the book, quotes the book, and lives and dies for the rewards promised in the book.
Socioeconomic factors may influence one’s vulnerability to radicalisation but this article regrettably tries to paint them as the alpha and the omega of radicalism. While loneliness, racism, exclusion ,and economic distress may make one susceptible to being radicalised, at the end of they day, it is a belief system they embrace, and kill and die in accordance with its diktats, handpicking those designated infidels, hypocrites, and apostates per the definitions of that belief system.
To give an analogy – smoking raises your risk of lung cancer, but this article is akin to claiming that smoking is lung cancer.
But the icing on the cake? This article totally lost me where the author equated radical groups like the Daesh to Hindu nationalism. This is blatant, shameless, pandering to the very forces that morally support radicalism from the periphery, their weapons being demagoguery and intellectualisation of extremism.