Word: jihadist
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...supply alienated young Muslims with the model of a "civilized" society. It is most unfortunate and dangerous. Valentine Iheanacho Rome Today's young European Muslims are angry, but no more so than young Tibetans, South Africans or East Timorese. Still, those young people have not resorted to acts of jihadist terrorism. Furthermore, Islamic extremism is not only a European issue. It also exists in Malaysia, Nigeria, Sudan, Kenya and Indonesia - countries that have had nothing to do with the war in Iraq, which Time says is the galvanizing issue of Muslim radicalization in Europe. Andrew Onoro Birmingham, England...
...legendary grit. Dozens of American soldiers billeted in what was once Saddam Hussein's garish palace on the Tigris milled about the marble halls, vying for a good camera angle to snap the rare American VIP visiting Iraq's second city, which has been plagued by insurgent and jihadist violence since...
...dramatic and ugly as the violence has been, however, the banlieue riots do not represent a new opportunity for jihadist recruiters, nor does it bear the fingerprints of Islamist instigators. That ethnic Arabs are vastly over-represented in the banlieue is no secret. Neither is the exploitation of the rampant misery and racism of the suburbs by Islamists recruiters. But the youths currently involved in rioting don't fit the profile sought by highly secretive jihadists, whose primary fear is infiltration by the authorities. Most rioters are active in their own neighborhoods, are known to the inhabitants looking...
...push in the U.N. Security Council for resolutions condemning Syria. A top State Department official says the U.S. wants the resolutions to cite not just the Hariri assassination but also "the various aspects of Syria's destabilizing behavior in the region"--ranging from Syria's suspected support for jihadist fighters in Iraq to its sheltering of leaders of militant Palestinian groups like Hamas...
...Kashmiris do venture across the LoC, one of their first stops will be Kamsa refugee camp, just north of Muzaffarabad on the banks of the Neelum river. The camp was hastily built 15 years ago to shelter Kashmiris fleeing a fresh outbreak of violence on the Indian side when jihadist separatist fighters launched an offensive against Indian troops. The militancy persists, with over 50,000 dead-indeed, the killing of a top government official on the Indian side within days of the quake suggests there has been no letup in attacks as a result of the disaster, while Pakistan...