Realterror

Excellent and very detailed article by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Here are some beginning highlights and outline of the essay:

“‘radicalism’ is defined as: ‘The active pursuit of and support for far-reaching changes in society which may constitute a danger to the democratic legal order through the threat or use of violence or other undemocratic means’¹. The focus will be on the process by which Muslims, or converts, become ‘radicalized’—that is, they come to accept the legitimacy and necessity for ongoing violent jihad against the governments and peoples of both Muslim and non-Muslim countries…

Their inspiration came from Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966)⁵ who drew upon the concept of jahiliyya (a state of barbarism and ignorance about the Prophet Mohammed’s revelations) and Wahhabism⁶ (a militant effort to purify Islam) to justify the necessity for eternal jihad in order to “abolish injustice from the earth, to bring people to the worship of God alone”.⁷ Qutb asserted that jihad was not just a means to defend Muslim lands and peoples but an offensive, proactive and permanent revolution against internal and external enemies who usurped God’s sovereignty…

• Radicalization – Catalysts and Causes
• The Doctrine of Jihad
• Social, Pyschological and Situational Analyses of Radicalization
• Categories of Recruits

1. a) Young volunteers
2. b) Religious nationalists
3. c) Homegrown terrorists
4. d) Friendship and Kinship Networks
5. e) ‘Reverts’
6. f) Converts
7. g) Women
8. h) Prisoners

• Foreign Fighters in Iraq
• No Single Explanation
• Recruiting Strategies
• The Internet
• The Mosques
• Conclusion

Essay by Angela Gendron
Carleton University, Ottawa”

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