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jihad

  • 5/3/2020

    The Untold Story of Boko Haram’s Origins

    by Jacob Zenn

    Researchers who view Boko Haram as a Nigerian unsurgency need to understand its history as part of pan-African Islamist networks; responses to extremism must work across national borders.

  • SOURCE: Middle East Forum
    2-26-15

    Empowering Jihad: The Deadly Myth of a 'Root Cause'

    by Phyllis Chesler

    Blaming Islamist horrors on poverty only obscures the true problem: Jihadists are driven by an ideology — one that yearns to "restore" a mythical caliphate, one governed by the most austere version of Sharia law.