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The 2020 TE-SAT by Europol describes jihadism as "a violent ideology exploiting traditional Islamic concepts". [2] Jihadists do this by exploiting the concept of jihad, which means 'striving' or 'exertion' but can also refer to religiously sanctioned warfare and aim to create an Islamic state governed exclusively by their interpretation of Islamic law.
The bombing attempt on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 was condemned by Muslim groups. In Canada, a group of Canadian and U.S. Islamic leaders issued a fatwa, or religious edict, condemning any attacks by extremists or terrorists on the United States or Canada and declaring that an attack by extremists on the two countries would constitute an attack on Muslims living in North America.
[15] [16] The traditional Islam in Kosovo is the Hanafi school, described as 'liberal' and 'moderate'. [16] Islamist volunteers in the Kosovo Liberation Army from Western Europe of ethnic Albanian, Turkish, and North African origin, were recruited by Islamist leaders in Western Europe allied to Bin Laden and Zawahiri. [17]
Deaths from Islamist assaults in Europe surged between 2004 and 2006, when attacks were fuelled by al Qaeda, and peaked again in 2015 to 2018, when they were inspired by Islamic State.
Europe is seeing a rise of "Islamist terrorism" and all states are threatened, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday during a visit to Albania, after Islamist killings of a teacher in ...
Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) is a pan-European counter-jihad [1] organisation with the stated goal of "preventing Islam from becoming a dominant political force in Europe". [2] It is a political interest group which has been active in Denmark and has conducted anti-Islamic protests in the United Kingdom . [ 3 ]
Republican U.S. Senator John Kennedy accused a leading Muslim civil rights advocate of supporting extremism during a Senate hearing on hate incidents in the U.S., drawing criticism from many ...
On April 4, 2014, Ayman al-Zawahiri calls for an "independent arbitration under Islamic law" to end the fighting between Syria's Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Jabhat al-Nosra . According to Romain Caillet, researcher at the French Institute of the Middle East and specialist in the Salafist movement, the project supported by al ...