ISIS is claiming credit for inspiring the latest terrorist attacks in Nice, France and on a train in southern Germany. We don’t know what was in the attackers’ minds or whether ISIS’ claim is false bravado or true, but a video obtained by our ISIS Defector Interview Project at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, ICSVE, may provide credence to ISIS’ claim. ISIS produces thousands of videos and memes to reach and radicalize those who are vulnerable, but this
The Nusra Front’s adoption of the new name Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and claim that it has separated itself from al-Qaeda was designed to influence US policy, not to make the group any more independent of al-Qaeda.
The objective of the manoeuvre was to head off US-Russian military cooperation against the jihadist group, renamed last week, based at least in part on the hope that the US bureaucratic and political elite, who are lining up against a new US-Russian agreement, may block
Wolves attack in packs but there are a few castouts who have left or been excluded from their pack: the stronger, more aggressive, hunt-savvy lone wolves -- but outside of the animal kingdom, lone wolf is becoming an abused metaphor or a convenient myth for every terrorist act that Western authorities lacked the strategic perspective to see coming.
Experts still have no universal consensus over the definition of terrorism, let alone its newest and trendiest ever-increasing
Takfiri is frequently used in reference to Daesh (also known as ISIL or ISIS) but the term has a hidden universal applicability that surpasses our era, while exposing the dark ideology languishing in the core of the phenomenon.
Since they started calling themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in June 2014, the gun-wielding occupiers of Iraq and Syria have been referred to as Takfiris by many Islamic scholars.
Western media, however, tends to refer to the militants
The US counterterrorism bombing campaign under “Operation Inherent Resolve” does not target terrorists.
Quite the opposite. Both ISIS-Daesh and Al Nusra are protected by the US led coalition.
The forbidden truth is that the counterterrorism campaign is directed against the Syrian people.
It’s a massacre of civilians “with a human face”. It’s nonetheless a criminal undertaking perpetrated at the highest levels of the US government, in coordination with America’s allies including
NYTimes- We still have a long way to go when it comes to eradicating stigma around mental health.
In an op-ed for the New York Times last week, Boston University sociology professor Liah Greenfield argued that in order to effectively eliminate individual acts of terror, society needs to address mental illness.
“The rates of mental illness, especially depression, in the West are very high and, according to the most authoritative statistics, steadily rising,” she wrote. “Unless we resolve
NYTimes- In a new twist, terrorists around the world are broadcasting their messages live during their deadly attacks, a New York police official told the Association for a Better New York on Wednesday.
Terrorists are streaming live video and pledging their allegiance to the Islamic State group as their attacks are unfolding, “a new phenomenon that we call ‘dying live,’” John J. Miller, the deputy police commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, said. Before, recorded
Mehr News Agency
According to a German MP Munich shooting will not have considerable impact on the country as an open society.
In an interview with Mehr News Agency, German-Iranian MP Omid Nouripour has shared his views with the news agency on Friday shooting spree in Munich which claimed 9 lives before the attacker killed himself.
Here is his answers:
There has been no evidence so far that the attacker was a lone wolf; can you comment on possible reasons behind the attack?
I wouldn’t
Huffington Post
Both the MEK and the self-proclaimed Islamic State, which claimed the attack in Nice, are groups with a history of terrorism, and both, in some way or another, are influenced by the kingdom.
France has unfortunately been the epicenter for two terrorism-related events in recent weeks. The tragic truck attack in Nice, which received international attention, and a rally recently held in Paris by a notorious Iranian opposition group — the “Mujahedin-e Khalq,” or MEK, which
NYTimes- The comment of the French prime minister can be interpreted as recognition that terrible events such as the mass killing in Nice Thursday night are a sign of a very long-term problem, which is unlikely to be speedily resolved. In this sense, France, like the United States, will indeed “have to learn to live with terrorism.”
Paradoxically, this is so precisely because “terrorism” is not an adequate diagnosis of such acts in the United States and Western Europe. Yes, they are
The New York Times (7/15/16), writing about the man who reportedly killed 84 people in a truck attack in Nice, France, provided no evidence that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was motivated by either politics or religion to commit violence—yet still labeled the murders as “terrorism,” as though the definition of that crime were based on ethnicity rather than motivation.
Times correspondent Andrew Higgins wrote that Lahouaiej Bouhlel
was known to his neighbors only as a moody and
Perhaps one of the most striking features of the attack in Nice is not what occurred in France, but instead how the reaction exemplifies the selective humanity that we exhibit depending on where terrorism occurs.
The public, politicians, and the media all rightfully displayed outrage over the string of attacks that have been plaguing France over the past 18 months, as well as the recent Orlando shooting in the US, yet the level of outrage and media coverage never reaches the same
The common link to France accounting for five of the 16 major Western nation terrorist incidents in 2016, including the July 14 “lone wolf” attack in Nice that killed 84 people, is French prisons being “radical Islam” terrorist universities.
Despite Muslims comprising just eight percent of the population of France, 60 percent of the 68,000 French prison inmates are Muslims and about the same 60 percent of the 235,000 French parolees are Muslims, according to the Paris
Until the deadly shooting of 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last year by a married couple with a history of privately expressing support for Muslim terrorist groups, most fears of terrorism on U.S. soil had centered on the potential for plane hijackings or biological or chemical weapons. Because of how politicians and the news media have tended to define terrorism since 9/11, guns had rarely entered the conversation.
Part of this is because gun deaths resulting from terrorism
When an act of terrorism occurs, what is usually reported are the facts. And even in second-day stories, we often hear about the sociopolitical ramifications of the incident or the political posturing of the perpetrators, and hardly about the true motives of the actual agents.
In our journey to understand the neural pathways of a terrorist’s mind -- after a general walkthrough of the possible dogmas that can make a young brain susceptible to Takfiri recruiters – we face the
AhlulBayt News Agency - Saudi Arabia’s former spy chief has attended an annual meeting of a terrorist group highly detested in Iran, raising the stakes in the kingdom's confrontational approach toward the Islamic Republic.
Prince Turki al-Faisal's appearance and his nearly 30-minute address to the gathering of the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) in Paris on Saturday goes in line with Riyadh's long history of supporting Takfiri terrorists.
The MKO is the most hated terrorist group
Newt Gingrich, who is being vetted to be Donald Trump’s running mate and appeared with the candidate in Cincinnati on Wednesday, left the campaign trail this weekend for an unusual reason. The former Speaker of the House had to fly to Paris to appear at a gala celebration for the Mojahedin-e Khalq, or People’s Mujahedin, an Iranian exile group that wants Washington’s backing for regime change in Iran.
In his remarks, Gingrich heaped praise on the MEK’s efforts, and congratulated them
To the surprise of some observers, Donald Trump has recently given a few campaign-trail shout-outs to Saddam Hussein -- a man the United States twice went to war with.
Most recently -- though not for the first time -- Trump gave the late Iraqi dictator some credit at a campaign rally in Raleigh, N.C., on July 5, 2016.
"Saddam Hussein was a bad guy. Right?" Trump said. "He was a bad guy. Really bad guy. But you know what, he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good they
Imagine you are contacted by a recruiter and have been asked to go get an explosive belt from their agents. Then you are instructed to go to one of the most crowded places near you and kill as many people as you can before you detonate your vest. Yes while you are still wearing it.
Probably you cannot imagine that. Or you may be thinking what kind of psychological illness you should have to be able to even picture such a scene. But at the moment, there are quite a large number
Terrorism is generally defined as the use of violence against random innocents with the intent to generate fear and emotions that further the terrorists’ political goals. In America, where the actual risk of terrorism is low, our fear and emotions also are shaped — and distorted — by how the news media covers terrorism and how politicians talk about it.
At the moment, our attention, as measured by cable TV airtime and political rhetoric, is focused on two incidents — the mass
ISIS is claiming credit for inspiring the latest terrorist attacks in Nice, France and on a train in southern Germany. We don’t know what was in the attackers’ minds or whether ISIS’ claim is false bravado or true, but a video obtained by our ISIS Defector Interview Project at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism, ICSVE, may provide credence to ISIS’ claim. ISIS produces thousands of videos and memes to reach and radicalize those who are vulnerable, but this
