Author: Stephen TankelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic terrorism
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
The Indian jihadist movement
Author: Stephen TankelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestic terrorism
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Youth and Radicalisation
Author: Taruni KumarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Muslims
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
In India, the Indian Mujahideen (IM) has drawn its recruits from urban and educated backgrounds. So has the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), another organisation linked by authorities to terrorist activities in the country. Recent reports about a group of Indians joining the ISIS have raised concerns about the possibility of an increasing number of young professionals joining global jihadist groups. Such presence of Indians among the ISIS cadres is a significant departure from the past: Although Indian nationals have been involved in terrorist attacks within the country, there has been no case of any one joining al-Qaeda or any other global terrorist group. Some argue that in India, the jihadist movement is not an outcome of a particular interpretation of sacred Islamic texts and does not concern itself entirely with the religion. Rather, it is the outcome of dissatisfaction over political and social issues, and it appeals the most to certain classes of youth. These issues, combined with religious conservatism, may lead to jihadist tendencies. This is a subject that calls for closer examination. This paper raises the following questions: Is there a marked trend among young Indian Muslim professionals to be drawn towards terrorism? ; Is there a noticeable tendency towards joining global jihadi causes? ; What will be the nature and extent of threats that these tendencies, if present, pose to India?
The Global Jihadist Movement
Author: Angel RabasaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780833039309
Category : Terrorism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Examines al-QaedaÂs evolution and the emergence of the broader global jihadist movement-groups affiliated, associated, or inspired by al-Qaeda-and the threat that they pose to the United States and U.S. allies and interests. The authors conclude by setting out a four-pronged strategy to counter the jihadist threat.
Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent
Author: A.G. ReedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jihad
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
In September 2014, al-Qaeda Central (AQC) launched its latest regional affiliate, al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). The new group was created to operate across South Asia, however, with its centre of gravity and leadership based in Pakistan. This paper is a background brief, designed for policy makers, to shed light on and increase understanding of AQC's latest affiliate AQIS. At first glance the lack of successful action has led many to argue that AQIS is of limited threat. However, despite early setbacks, the group has not been eliminated and continues to organise and plan for the future.
Landscapes of the Jihad
Author: Faisal DevjiPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801459788
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
What are the motives behind Osama bin Laden's and Al-Qaeda's jihad against America and the West? Innumerable attempts have been made in recent years to explain that mysterious worldview. In Landscapes of the Jihad, Faisal Devji focuses on the ethical content of this jihad as opposed to its purported political intent. Al-Qaeda differs radically from such groups as Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah, which aim to establish fundamentalist Islamic states. In fact, Devji contends, Al-Qaeda, with its decentralized structure and emphasis on moral rather than political action, actually has more in common with multinational corporations, antiglobalization activists, and environmentalist and social justice organizations. Bin Laden and his lieutenants view their cause as a response to the oppressive conditions faced by the Muslim world rather than an Islamist attempt to build states. Al-Qaeda culls diverse symbols and fragments from Islam's past in order to legitimize its global war against the "metaphysical evil" emanating from the West. The most salient example of this assemblage, Devji argues, is the concept of jihad itself, which Al-Qaeda defines as an "individual duty" incumbent on all Muslims, like prayer. Although medieval Islamic thought provides precedent for this interpretation, Al-Qaeda has deftly separated the stipulation from its institutional moorings and turned jihad into a weapon of spiritual conflict. Al-Qaeda and its jihad, Devji suggests, are only the most visible manifestations of wider changes in the Muslim world. Such changes include the fragmentation of traditional as well as fundamentalist forms of authority. In the author's view, Al-Qaeda represents a new way of organizing Muslim belief and practice within a global landscape and does not require ideological or institutional unity. Offering a compelling explanation for the central purpose of Al-Qaeda's jihad against the West, the meaning of its strategies and tactics, and its moral and aesthetic dimensions, Landscapes of the Jihad is at once a sophisticated work of historical and cultural analysis and an invaluable guide to the world's most prominent terrorist movement.
Global Jihad
Author: Osama Bin LadenPublisher: Pavilion Press
ISBN: 9781414507118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
War and a Global Jihad are declared on Western Civilization by a unique enemy consisting of a network including leaders of nations, sympathizers, clerics, zealots. Here are the words of their leaders.
Storming the World Stage
Author: Stephen TankelPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190238038
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Lashkar-e-Taiba is among the most powerful militants groups in South Asia and increasingly viewed as a global terrorist threat on par with al-Qaeda. Considered Pakistan's most powerful proxy against India, the group gained public prominence after its deadly ten-person suicide assault on Mumbai in November 2008. By the time the last Lashkar terrorist was dead after nearly 60 hours, it appeared the world was facing a new menace. Boasting transnational networks stretching across several continents, there has been serious debate since 9/11 of whether Lashkar is an al-Qaeda affiliate. The deliberate targeting of Westerners and Jews during the Mumbai attacks raised questions about whether Lashkar was moving deeper into al-Qaeda's orbit and perhaps on a trajectory to displace Osama bin Laden's network as the next major global jihadi threat. Lashkar's expansion has serious security implications for India, Pakistan, Europe and the United States and its activities threaten to damage US-Pakistan relations. Despite growing calls for action, Pakistan is yet to take any serious steps toward dismantling Lashkar for fear of drawing it further into the insurgency raging there and because of its continued utility against India. More than a militant outfit, Lashkar also controls a vast infrastructure that delivers necessary social services to the Pakistani populace, making it all the more difficult to dismantle. Storming the World Stage traces the evolution of Lashkar-e-Taiba over more than two decades to illustrate how the group grew so powerful and to assess the threat it poses to India, the West and to Pakistan itself. The first English-language book ever written about Lashkar, it draws on in-depth field research, including interviews with senior Lashkar leaders, rank-and-file members, and officials of the Pakistani security services--some of who have helped nurture the group over the years.
Nexus of Global Jihad
Author: Assaf MoghadamPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231538154
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Leading jihadist groups such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State dominate through cooperation in the form of knowledge sharing, resource sharing, joint training exercises, and operational collaboration. They build alliances and lesser partnerships with other formal and informal terrorist actors to recruit foreign fighters and spread their message worldwide, raising the aggregate threat level for their declared enemies. Whether they consist of friends or foes, whether they are connected locally or online, these networks create a wellspring of support for jihadist organizations that may fluctuate in strength or change in character but never runs dry. Nexus of Global Jihad identifies types of terrorist actors, the nature of their partnerships, and the environments in which they prosper to explain global jihadist terrorism's ongoing success and resilience. Nexus of Global Jihad brings to light an emerging style of "networked cooperation" that works alongside interorganizational terrorist cooperation to establish bonds of varying depth and endurance. Case studies use recently declassified materials to illuminate al-Qaeda's dealings from Iran to the Arabian Peninsula and the informal actors that power the Sharia4 movement. The book proposes policies that increase intelligence gathering on informal terrorist actors, constrain enabling environments, and disrupt terrorist networks according to different types of cooperation. It is a vital text for strategists and scholars struggling to understand a growing spectrum of terrorist groups working together more effectively than ever before.
The Cambridge Companion to New Religious Movements
Author: Olav HammerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196507
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This volume addresses the key features of new religions, such as Scientology, the Moonies and Jihadist movements, from a systematic, comparative perspective.
The Caravan
Author: Thomas HegghammerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108625274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Abdallah Azzam, the Palestinian cleric who led the mobilization of Arab fighters to Afghanistan in the 1980s, played a crucial role in the internationalization of the jihadi movement. Killed in mysterious circumstances in 1989 in Peshawar, Pakistan, he remains one of the most influential jihadi ideologues of all time. Here, in the first in-depth biography of Azzam, Thomas Hegghammer explains how Azzam came to play this role and why jihadism went global at this particular time. It traces Azzam's extraordinary life journey from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan, telling the story of a man who knew all the leading Islamists of his time and frequented presidents, CIA agents, and Cat Stevens the pop star. It is, however, also a story of displacement, exclusion, and repression that suggests that jihadism went global for fundamentally local reasons.