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Notes on Jihadism: “The ISIS Reader,” edited by Haroro J. Ingram, Craig Whiteside and Charlie Winter

Islamic State (IS) has been territorially destroyed and its first leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, killed while cowering in a suicide vest the detonation of which killed two young children alongside…

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10 min

Apple Pie Holy War: “Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad” by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

Image by Muhammad ud-Deen The attacks of September 11th, 2001 reshaped the world by introducing a new brand of terrorism: global jihad. And there is one man in particular…

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28 min

Politics

In Defense of the War on Terror: A Response to Ben Burgis

In a recent article on free will and determinism for Areo, Ben Burgis concludes that “everything that’s been done in the last eighteen years in the name of fighting terrorism…

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5 min

Politics

Medine Zaouiche and the Politics of Provocation

When French rapper Médine (real name Medine Zaouiche) decided to schedule a concert at the Bataclan theatre, where, in November 2015, Islamist jihadists massacred eighty-nine people, there was bound to…

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23 min

Politics

Islamic Terrorism is Motivated by Religion, Not Retribution

A quote used in this article by Dermot O’Sullivan incorrectly states that a death occurred in Italy due to terrorism. The author references this case covered by Reuters, but no one…

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Jihadism

Notes on Jihadism: “The ISIS Reader,” edited by Haroro J. Ingram, Craig Whiteside and Charlie Winter

Apple Pie Holy War: “Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad” by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens

In Defense of the War on Terror: A Response to Ben Burgis

Medine Zaouiche and the Politics of Provocation

Islamic Terrorism is Motivated by Religion, Not Retribution

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