{"id":685,"date":"2005-01-12T00:54:14","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T00:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:58","slug":"jihad_in_europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Jihad In Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

And here’s a – literally – dissertation on Islamist terrorists in Europe<\/a> [pdf], courtesy of ‘Secular Blasphemy<\/a>‘ – it’s work sponsored by Petter Nesser at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment. <\/p>\n

The dissertation, however, lays out the sociology and ideology of the part-Westernized Islamists in frightening detail. While this is much more Dan’s territory, I’m going to be reading and digesting this for a while.<\/p>\n

The four conspiracies analyzed below involve transnational contacts and cooperation between Islamist radicals in several European countries and also between Europe-based Islamists and local Islamist insurgents in the Middle East, North Africa and Chechnya. The militants have traveled extensively both inside and outside Europe. Some of the conspiracies seem to have been initiated outside Europe, but planned, financed and prepared in several European countries. The first case, the \u201cStrasbourg plot\u201d was, for example, planned and financed from the U.K., prepared in Germany, and the attack was going to be launched in France.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The cases show the relevance of combining \u201clevels of analysis\u201d when studying Islamist terrorism in Europe. The militants originated from the Middle East and North Africa, they were situated in the European diaspora prior to their arrests, and the vast majority of them had been influenced by \u201cglobal mujahidin\u201d when training in Afghanistan. The militants\u2019 actions and statements strongly suggest that they have been influenced by the Salafi-Jihadi doctrine. There is available information on the backgrounds and organizational affiliations of the militants, the nationality and type of target they selected for terrorist attacks, and their justifications and excuses for taking part in terrorism inside Europe.<\/p>\n

\nThe sources gathered for this report suggest the extremist milieu in Europe is relatively small and the most fanatic and violent Islamists probably can be counted as hundreds, rather than thousands.The case-studies show that there have been multiple links and contacts between militants involved in the different conspiracies. Although the Europe-based Islamist radicals surveyed here belong to movements that in theory emphasize the \u201clocal jihad\u201d more than the \u201cglobal jihad\u201d or the vice-versa, it is important to note that despite differences in their emphasis, the movements\u2019 ideologies are largely compatible. In training camps run by al-Qaida and like-minded groups in Afghanistan, personal relationships were established between members of different movements. These personal contacts seem to have lived on in Europe, in the sense that Islamists belonging to different movements supported each other on an operational level. For example, Islamists perceived as mainly committed to the \u201clocal jihad\u201d have supported operations against targets typically associated with the \u201cglobal mujahidin\u201d.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And here’s a – literally – dissertation on Islamist terrorists in Europe [pdf], courtesy of ‘Secular Blasphemy‘ – it’s work sponsored by Petter Nesser at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment. The dissertation, however, lays out the sociology and ideology of the part-Westernized Islamists in frightening detail. While this is much more Dan’s territory, I’m going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}