INTRODUCTION TO TERRORISM

Introduction to Terrorism

Introduction to Terrorism

Recruitment

On an individual basis, Muslim men throughout the globe may engage in militant jihad out of a sense of defending a Muslim community. In most cases it has been to defend a Muslim population from direct aggression (Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Iraq); for some, however, jihad also entails defending the global Muslim community from Western influences by attacking the United States and its allies. Perceiving the United States as a threat to Islam is made easier by the increasingly prevalent anti-American attitude in the Muslim world shared by non-salafist Muslims and salafist mujahedin alike.

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