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Study Indicates Drives for Jihadi Radicalization
August 31, 2016
A new study by a Canadian research network suggests that the factors for jihadi radicalization among foreign fighters from North America and Europe are religious interpretation and existential satisfaction, raising serious concerns about the time horizons and financial resources required for policy strategies that can successfully mitigate Islamist radicalization and recruitment.
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Saudi Arabia Confronts Dilemmas of Exporting Islamism
August 31, 2016
Saudi Arabia's singular impact on the globalization of Islamist extremism - through the international export of oil-financed mosques, radical preachers, fundamentalist textbooks, and jihadist organizations - has produced serious threats to world peace and paradoxically is fueling huge domestic instability in the Kingdom.
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East Africa Is a Frontline for Islamist Radical Expansion
August 30, 2016
Islamist extremist groups are methodically establishing an East Africa frontline in the global jihadist movement, aiming to destabilize fragile states in Kenya and Somalia by combining violent attacks on human rights activists and security agencies with recruitment drives targeting economically marginalized youth.
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Territorial Setbacks Do Not Deter IS Rank-and-File
August 30, 2016
In spite of recent losses of key strongholds in the territorial core of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, interviews with IS rank-and-file members show their willingness to adopt a long view and internationalist perspective for the establishment of a global caliphate organized on sharia principles.
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Al-Shabab Attacks Another Soft Target in Somalia
August 30, 2016
Islamist militant group al-Shabab has carried out another high-casualty attack, this time against politicians and journalists at a conference hotel in Mogadishu, as the jihadist group continues its sustained assault to oust African Union peacekeepers and the UN-backed government of Somalia and implement a sharia state in the East African country.
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