When Osama bin Laden issued a rambling audio recording of his views on Somalia earlier this year, the new authorities in the country's capital, Mogadishu, laughed hard. Bin Laden's thinking on this utterly failed state in the Horn of Africa seemed out of touch, even patronizing. Yet only a few months after Somalia's latest "transitional" government was set up amid a rare burst of albeit cautious optimism, Somali radicals linked to al-Qaida are gaining strength, while moderate Islamists, such as the country's new president, Sharif Ahmed, are losing ground. When Ethiopia invaded Somalia with American encouragement in 2006, the aim was to fend off any kind of Islamist threat to Ethiopia and to catch the handful of al-Qaida people sheltering in the country. The invasion and the ensuing air ...
One reason is that al-Qaida, though weaker in Iraq, has created a new sanctuary in Pakistan's tribal belt. Another is that al-Qaida's ideology has spread far and wide thanks to the Internet and ease of travel. A third is that anti-Americanism remains powerful across the Muslim world. Only a tiny proportion of the world's Muslims need to take up jihad to create serious trouble. Al-Qaida seeks to attack the "far enemy," America, because the "near enemy," the region's governments, are hard to fight. The West should seek to invert this equation. It must encourage and help weak governments, such as Pakistan's, to deny the terrorists a haven. International intelligence co-operation must be strengthened. In an Internet video in September 2007 Abu Yahya al- Libi, a prominent al-Qaida leader, mo...
...Jihadists face an ideological backlash, even from radical "b...
Muslims also argue over what some refer to as Islam's sixth pillar, jihad. In the Koran, Islam's sacred text, jihad means "to strive or struggle" to realize God's will, to lead a virtuous life, to create a just society and to defend Islam and the Muslim community. But historically, Muslim rulers, backed by religious scholars, used the term to legitimize holy wars to expand their empires. Contemporary extremists -- most notably Osama bin Laden -- also appeal to Islam to bless their attacks. My book Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, tackles this theme, as does Fawaz Gerges' Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy. [Muhammad] is the central role model for Muslims -- much like Jesus is for Christians, except solely human. He is seen as the ideal husband, father and friend, t...
[George Galloway] is not a respectful man. He is a foolish and hateful man who says foolish and hateful things that appeal to foolish and hateful people. He has referred to Israel as "this little Hitler State on the Mediterranean." He was a virulent opponent of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and thinks that the United States pretty well got what it deserved on 9-11: "Some of you," he told an America audience in 2005, "may believe that those airplanes on Sept. 11 came out of a clear blue sky. I believe they came out of a swamp of hatred created by us. If by "us" Galloway means the West in general and Americans in particular, he would hardly be alone among Western left-wing intellectuals who seem able to justify any atrocity committed by Islamist terrorists. But he so closely identifie...
... so closely identifies himself with the jihadist cause and Islamist fundamentalism that it is hard ...
...Harkat) was an active jihadist in Peshawar who was in the service of Ibn Al Khatt...
The war in Iraq has become a "cause celebre" for Islamic jihadists around the globe and is producing a new generation of terrorists resentful of America, according to a controversial intelligence report ordered declassified yesterday by U.S. President George W. Bush. The Iraq conflict has become a 'cause celebre' for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement. Bush said "it's a mistake" to conclude that terrorists would have been less motivated to attack if the U.S. had never invaded Iraq.
Western jihadist youth counterculture is the next phase in the evolution of global terrorism. Since becoming a credible threat in the late 1980s, al-Qaida has decentralized and spread from its origins in Pakistan and Afghanistan to the point that a "high percentage" of the extremists on the CSIS radar screen are now Canadian-born. "These individuals are part of Western society, and their 'Canadianness' makes detection more difficult," a secret CSIS report notes. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service acknowledged this week it has been investigating groups of "homegrown" extremists. In candid testimony to the Senate national security committee, the agency went on to say that these young followers of the "al-Qaida ideology" have been plotting against targets within Canada.
... became a sword and shield for militant jihadists to attack and destroy "apostate" Muslim regimes an...
... today is found in a variety of radical jihadist movements and in the ideology of Iran's leadership...
... (hereafter Khattab), a leading Sunni jihadist figure, and participated in military operations wi...
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