When policymakers tell us that the threat
from jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria is unprecedented, should we take them on their word?
Perversely, this sola scriptura approach is no different
from the jihadists» own «Qur» an and sunna alone» approach.
Formal pledges
from jihadists in Sinai, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya and Algeria were released through IS media in November and were formally accepted by the «emir» three days later.
Not exact matches
«They suggested he kept his distress over his splintered family and failing college grades hidden
from others, and soon became vulnerable to the
jihadist path offered by a radicalized older brother,» said the Boston Globe.
The principal threat came
from violent Islamist groups using the cartoons «to provoke grassroots
jihadists to conduct violent attacks in the west», Stewart said.
Nevertheless, recent successes by Kurdish peshmerga and federal forces controlled by Baghdad point to a reversal of the
jihadist group's offensive in Iraq, likely leading to its containment and eventual eviction
from Mosul, Falluja, and Tikrit.
One of the most notorious ISIS
jihadists calmly explained why he supports ISIS practice of enslaving people in conquers, in a jailhouse interview
from Syria.
Throw in an outsized security budget (thanks to terrorist threats
from a southwestern Russia
Jihadist group) and a massive corruption problem (opposition politicians estimated that Putin's cronies pocketed up to $ 30 billion), and it's not tough to see how Russia massively overran its $ 12 billion budget.
For more than two years, occupying Islamic
jihadists tried to erase any evidence of Christianity
from the city — burning churches, destroying crosses, toppling bell towers.
What I would like to see
from the Mosque's Imam is a public, unequivocal statement that he does not tolerate violent teachings or attacks against Americans and issues a Fatwa forbidding any moral, monetary or logistical support for people planning or contemplating
jihadist violence.
Santorum, et al., may be interested in other issues besides abortion and marriage equality, but for progressive, pro-equality Americans, he's just another evil anti-gay
jihadist from the Religions «Right.»
If we are concerned about loving gays, do we really want Islamic
jihadists coming here throwing gays
from rooftops?
In The War for Muslim Minds, Gilles Kepel, a French Arabist and scholar of Islam, shows little patience for neoconservative U.S. foreign policy, but most of the book is taken up with criticism of the chief enemy of Muslim reform in Europe:
jihadist ideology imported
from Saudi Arabian Wahhabism, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Qutb brothers (Sayyid and Muhammad) and like - minded sources.
When the defense of religious freedom meant confronting Islamist and
jihadist terrorists, in the face of the same objections
from the same unrealistic realists, Frank Wolf was there.
While there is so far no evidence that the brothers were associated to international
jihadist groups, in August 2012, soon after returning
from a long visit to Russia, Tamerlan created a YouTube channel with links to a number of videos including sermons or interviews with radical preachers.
Hearing the name today, most people think of the
jihadist militant group, but the girls» name Isis comes
from an Egyptian goddess.
But increasingly they are at risk
from indiscriminate bombings by an increasingly militant opposition,
jihadist interlopers or government troops pretending to be both.
Nigerian troops have won back territory
from Boko Haram, but in response the
jihadists have increasingly resorted to suicide bombers — many of them young children — to wage war for an independent Islamic state.
The air campaign may prevent IS attacks in the West by destroying their operational capacity, especially when coupled with preventing western
jihadists from returning home.
Nigeria's military, with help
from regional allies, have succeeded in pushing the
jihadists out of territory captured in 2014 and 2015.
Ten months later, gunmen and suicide bombers
from the Islamic State
jihadist group attacked bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the national stadium in Paris on November 13, 2015, killing 130 people.
It worth mentioning that IS benefited
from the coalition air strikes by marketing itself for all
jihadists around the world as the Islamic state that is fighting the evil of the west in general and US in specific, this marketing propaganda attracted many
jihadist around the world to join IS.
above the fold: «MOST U.S. ATTACKS ARE HOMEGROWN AND NOT
JIHADIST; Terror Toll Since 9/11; A greater Threat
From Domestic Radicals, Law Officers Say» — WSJNY, 4 - col.
The
jihadists, who are allied to the Islamic State group, have destroyed swathes of remote northeast Nigeria since 2009, killing at least 20,000 people and forcing more than 2.6 million
from their homes.
4New York bombings: Investigators haven't been able to question a man charged with setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey because he's too severely injured
from his shootout with police, a law enforcement official said Thursday as the man's father said he'd warned federal authorities about the man's interest in
jihadist material.
The Prime Minister has defended an RAF air strike that killed two British
jihadists in Syria, including Reyaad Khan
from Cardiff.
The most rigorous piece of social science research on what happens to such veterans when they return looked at people
from conflicts in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and other
jihadist battlefronts (American Political Science Review, vol 107, p 1).
The most rigorous piece of social science research on what happens to such veterans when they return looked at people
from conflicts in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and other
jihadist battlefronts.
The number of
jihadist Web sites has grown
from a dozen in 1998 to 4,800 today.
As New Scientist went to press, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic were finalising their game plans to tackle the rise of Sunni
jihadist group Islamic State, but the issue of homegrown fighters won't be far
from their minds.
You've got 54 docs to choose
from, but don't miss The Oath, about the post-Guantà ¡ namo life of a
jihadist, and Countdown to Zero, a history of the nuclear arms race.
One is enduring captivity by
jihadist fighters in Somalia while the other is exploring the greatest depths of the ocean floor
from her submersible.»
Aside
from a few mentions of political buzzword terms such as «Supreme Leader», the script by Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan largely abstains
from drawing parallels to contemporary geopolitical history, which should be music to the ears of those who found the
Jihadist parable at the centre of Star Trek Into Darkness to be supremely distasteful.
Adapted by Erin Dignam
from the novel by JM Ledgard, Submergence is the story of James More (McAvoy), a water engineer who is taken hostage in Somalia by
Jihadist fighters who suspect that he is a British spy.
I see that Gary Lamphier
from the Edmonton Journal has now (editorial in 2009-12-12 edition) adopted SteveM's term «
jihadist» to try and describe / offend those who are concerned about AGW — he is still feeding gullible journalists fodder.
While there were many casualties on April 7
from fire and conventional warfare, the
jihadist figures were more or less plucked out of thin air.
Sell it by saying it kills two birds with one stone: funds Asian renewable energy and gets us away
from financing Arab sheiks with their white - elephants and
jihadist hobbies.
Earlier this month, the UK government unveiled a tool that can accurately detect
jihadist content and block it
from...
Earlier this month, the UK government unveiled a tool that can accurately detect
jihadist content and block it
from being viewed.
(Note:
from that trial a captured document stated the following: «The process of settlement is a «Civilization -
Jihadist Process» with all the means.
In it, Farrow called on social networks like Twitter and Facebook to «do more to stop terrorists
from inciting violence,» and argued that if these platforms screen for things like child porn, they should do the same for material that «drives ethnic conflict,» such as calls for violence
from Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi, the leader of the
Jihadist group known as ISIS.