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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"jihadist"”.
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Jihadist Extremism and Its Roots in Religiously Motivated Terrorism
… which religiously motivated acts of terror by jihadist extremists are committed. For nearly two decades, the United States has been engaged in a fight against the threat of terrorism and during this time the United States has used force as its main retaliatory response. In recent years, tools …
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Ideological Foundations of Jihadist Organizations: Hizbullah, al-Qaeda, and IS
… explores the ideological foundations of three jihadist organizations, Hizbullah, al-Qaeda, and Islamic State (IS). All three are categorized as international terrorist organizations but their goals differ. Hizbullah seeks to alter the government within Lebanon, al-Qaeda seeks to eliminate …
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Islamic Authority and the Articulation of Jihad: Approaching Jihadist Authority through the Islamist Magazine Inspire
… of individual jihad as communicated through the jihadist magazine Inspire, to counter the dismissal of radical articulations of jihad as un-Islamic and therefore illegitimate, and to demonstrate how such forms instead reflect the opportunistic replacement of traditional political and religious …
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Exposing the Fallacy: The Jihadist's Illegitimate Quest for Power
<p>The Jihadist quest for power is illegitimate because it distorts the religious foundations upon which its authority is based. These distortions take the form of a historical, strategic, theological, tactical and societal warping of reality to justify the jihadist strategic aim of instituting a …
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The Current Status and Future Trajectory of Violent Jihadism
… that, in their view, threaten the ability of jihadists to construct a truly Islamic society. This thesis assesses jihadism and evaluates the current status of the jihadist movement. The first part of this thesis contains a discussion of important issues involving ideology that are critical for …
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Utilizing Social Movement Theory to Examine Three Salafi Jihadist Groups, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS: the Resource Mobilization Approach of Charles Tilly
… of resource mobilization to examine three Salafi jihadist movements, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS. Originally presented in the early 1970s, Charles Tilly's resource mobilization approach within the social movement theories focuses on the mobilization, the control over resources and them acting …
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Radicalization within the Somali-American diaspora: countering the homegrown terrorist threat
… from average American teenager to an Islamic jihadist was gradual and complex. This thesis will examine how Ahmed and other Somali-Americans morphed into Salafi jihadists. Through interviews with law enforcement, social services providers, and homeland security officials, this thesis …
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Jihadists Assemble: The Rise of Militant Islamism in Southeast Asia
… the prism of al- Qaeda, with Southeast Asian jihadists following orders from their leaders outside the region; Indonesia specialists, meanwhile, countered this al-Qaeda-centric approach by emphasising the local Indonesian factors driving Southeast Asian jihadism. In this thesis, by contrast, I …
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Jihadists Assemble: The Rise of Militant Islamism in Southeast Asia
… the prism of al- Qaeda, with Southeast Asian jihadists following orders from their leaders outside the region; Indonesia specialists, meanwhile, countered this al-Qaeda-centric approach by emphasising the local Indonesian factors driving Southeast Asian jihadism. In this thesis, by contrast, I …
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British Jihadism: The Detail and the Denial
… involvement of Britons in global and domestic jihadist struggles at home and abroad across three decades. It catalogues and records their actions, and bring into a central document the names and affiliations of both British Islamist combatants, and those from jihadist organisations who have …
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A Typology of Homegrown Terrorists
… of future terrorist attacks by U.S.-based jihadist and Salafist extremists. This study aims to generate a typology of homegrown terrorists who have been prosecuted by the United States federal government for terrorism offenses within the United States since the 9/11 attacks. The current …
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Accountability for ISIS atrocities : is the International Criminal Court a viable prosecutorial option?
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is a jihadist militant group. The members of this militant group have committed criminal acts of unspeakable cruelty. These staggering criminal conducts are documented by the United Nations, international human rights organisations, and media. Besides, the …