The Economist Intelligence Unit, a research firm, named a Donald Trump election victory one of the top ten economic risks facing the globe today, ranking it alongside a breakup of the Euro Zone and the rise
of jihadi terrorism.
With Europe in the grip
of Jihadi terrorism and an ever - worsening migrant crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to isolate Germany and take rest of the Europe with her.
Titled Dressing For Work, the image is from Mojadidi's series A Day In the Life
of A Jihadi Gangster.
And two of us were on the team that created the U.S. Extremist Crime Database, an open - source database helping scholars better understand the criminal behaviors
of jihadi, far - right and far - left extremists.
But piecing together the mindset
of a jihadi hasn't been easy because of a scarcity of field data, which means that much foreign policy, and media coverage, is underpinned by speculation rather than hard data.
Al - Qaeda was very much of the old school
of jihadi thinking that emerged in the 90s; that horrific acts of violence would be shocking enough to awaken the Muslim world to the injustices against it.
While these public renunciations and fatwas may have little impact on the leadership
of jihadi groups, they play a significant role in delegitimizing jihadi ideology and thereby undermining its appeal to young Muslims.
If it is right to judge Islam as a whole on the basis of the barbarism
of jihadi groups, how should we explain — and encourage — the actions of Kurdish Muslims and many other Muslims who are standing up to the jihadists and paying with their lives to protect Christian and Yazidi minorities in Iraq?
To prove their point, these Islam - is - the - problem critics tend to link specific acts
of jihadi groups to a string of references from Islamic scripture, traditions, legal texts, and Muslim scholarly opinions.
We can not make sense
of the jihadi mindset, let alone work out a credible and sustainable response, without taking such background conditions seriously.
DW takes a look at the defining aspects
of the jihadi group — from its «caliphate» to its tactics.
A «eulogising profile»
of Jihadi John appeared in the magazine which was shared online late Tuesday by sympathisers of the Islamic State group.
There is a robust literature exploring why Europe and especially France has borne the brunt
of Jihadi terrorism.
Similarly, the effective end state goal
of Jihadis isn't worldwide peace.
Radical Islamists terrorize the world, and refugee flows have been pinpointed as a source
of jihadis who have wreaked death across Europe.
None
of the jihadis interviewed by his group were recruited in the sense of someone reaching out proactively to manipulate them, he says.
Homeland, Season 5, Episode 7: Quinn tells Dar Adal that he was asked to escort a group
of Jihadis to the Syrian border.
But to get to the point where he can turn his violent, revenge fantasies into reality, he has to undergo rigorous mental, physical, and emotional training, not to mention become fluent in Arabic and learn the intricacies
of jihadis» warped interpretation of the Koran before venturing to Tripoli, Libya to terminate his fiancée's killers with extreme prejudice.
The girls are taking the mickey out
of the jihadis, accusing them of glamorised violence.
Not exact matches
Wednesday's testimony marked the first time Tsarnaev's lawyers focused testimony on him, instead
of the brother, Tamerlan, a boxer turned aspiring
jihadi who was died after a shootout with police days after the bombing.
Much
of the chatter on
jihadi chat boards comes from Europeans and Americans, often social outcasts living vicariously through the online reputation
of their handle — including disenfranchised teens or jailhouse Muslim converts turned radicals, Scott said.
Beyond Syria, France has expanded its counterterrorism operations throughout North Africa as
Jihadi groups have proliferated in the aftermath
of the downfall
of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
According to the Minerva research team at Georgia State University, the 2014 expansion
of IS» so - called Caliphate was foretold by «Wiki Baghdady» - a
Jihadi insider, but more than likely an al - Qaida agent - who predicted IS would amass multiple group allegiances and then announce them simultaneously in order to project power and influence.
All
of those countries are currently roiled by active terror elements such as ISIS and al - Qaeda, yet few
of them were involved in hundreds
of domestic
jihadi plots since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal.
He stands accused
of helping orchestrate the gruesome beheading videos which became ISIS's hallmark, under the leadership
of Mohammed Emwazi, the Londoner who came to be known as
Jihadi John.
«
Jihadi John» appeared in videos posted online by the Islamic State starting in August 2014 that depicted the beheadings
of US journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, US aid worker Abdul - Rahman Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto.
Since taking the reins
of the group in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch
of al - Qaida into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global
jihadi community.
The Dabiq article said he became involved in
jihadi activity around the time
of the 2005 attacks on the London transit system, and came under the scrutiny
of the British intelligence agency MI5.
«
Jihadi John», whose real name is Mohammed Emwazi, is the masked figure who appeared in a string
of graphic videos showing the beheading
of Western hostages.
«Islamic State will survive «
Jihadi John»,» said Jonathan Russell, political liaison officer at the Quilliam Foundation, which aims to debunk the belief systems
of Islamic extremism.
Speculation has been rife on social media as to the identity
of the murdering Daesh thug dubbed the «new
Jihadi John».
Those fatalities from terrorist attacks compiled by START include attacks perpetrated by a number
of actors beyond just what they refer to as «
jihadi - inspired extremists.»
Of the 190 fatalities since 2002, slightly more than half — 105 — were attributed to either «
jihadi - inspired» or «Muslim» extremists.
The prez has knocked
of more
jihadi terrorists than the repubs / bushies could dream
of..
Those who argue that
jihadi groups represent the «essence»
of Islam actually reflect a very Western way
of thinking.
With the raging
of ISIS and other
jihadi groups throughout the Middle East, Antioch is being martyred once again: Not only the faithful but also clergy are being persecuted and killed in the name
of a radical form
of Islam.
Nevertheless, it is equally misleading to argue that the
jihadi groups represent the true face
of Islam.
Along with Mohammed Emwazi - the killer nicknamed
Jihadi John - and Aine Davis, they are thought to have been part
of the group named after the famous»60s band because
of their English accents.
In any case, the
jihadi thinking
of primitive form
of Islam needs to stop.
They should introspect and correct their weird ways
of world view as totalitarian exculusive
jihadi practice.
In a recent MEMRI daily brief, Yigal, taking exception to one
of President Trump's bombastic characterizations
of terrorists, wrote that «the
jihadis who perpetrate these horrific crimes are neither losers nor nihilists....
In 2010, she converted to a radical form
of Islam, then later married a
Jihadi fighter and fled to join ISIS with her children.
Decades
of «peace and tolerance» didn't stop them from changing, overnight, into ravening
jihadis.
There are plenty
of other
jihadis willing to do the job.
There are fears that the RAF would become «the airwing
of Islamic State» by strategically weakening the Assad regime, allowing the group and other
jihadi groups to operate with impunity.
Internationally, while American - trained Mohammed bin Nayef was a favourite
of the US and enjoyed close links with intelligence officials, who saw him as a key figure in the fight against
Jihadi terrorism, any US opposition to his sudden fall from grace is extremely unlikely.
Osama bin Laden composed an ode to the destruction
of the USS Cole in 2000, which he recited at his son's wedding, and a second example
of his verse was discovered in an abandoned safe house in Kabul, having been distributed among trainee
jihadis as an exhortation to fight.
A stable and democratic Libya governed by the rule
of law will not only promote stability throughout the Middle East and Africa; it will lower the long - term price
of crude, increase opportunities for Western companies, bring prosperity to the Libyan people, and lessen the possibility
of trans - Saharan
jihadi networks finding a foothold in the region.
The rise
of ISIS may give a fillip to the
jihadi forces in Kashmir and cross border terrorism as there have been previous linkages between the group and Pakistani terrorists.
This
of course could not happen, ceasefire was broken (again mainly by rebels), so called «moderates» disappeared and currently FSA is made mostly by various
jihadi groups.