Federal Prosecutor Frédéric Van Leeuw is constantly on the alert for terrorism in Belgium, but is particularly concerned about “inspired terrorism,” such as online influence and radicalisation of people in front of their computer screens, he explained on Thursday to Sudpresse.
One problem is that the Swedish state itself contributes indirectly to the spread of extremism. The Swedish Security Service (Säpo) has found that a “relatively large” number of organizations with links to violent extremism have been using Sweden’s state and municipal grant systems, which Säpo says could “contribute to radicalization and thus growth in extremist environments in Sweden.”
The killing of 71 soldiers in Niger, which had been spared the surge in major militant attacks that have destabilized Mali and Burkina Faso, shows that Islamic State is expanding at breakneck speed across West Africa.
German prosecutors say they have charged a man from Kosovo with supporting the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in Syria.
The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Les Forces armées maliennes (FAMa) ont déclaré, dans un communiqué, avoir neutralisé vendredi cinq terroristes et détruit une base des groupes armés terroristes à Parou, dans la région centrale de Mopti.
Lors du 4e congrès du mouvement indépendantiste MNLA, le chef du bureau de la mission de l’ONU à Kidal a qualifié le représentant de l’Etat de « délégation venue du Mali », ce qui sous-entend que Kidal n’est pas une localité malienne. Vive émoi et condamnations au sein de la classe politique et des institutions se multiplient depuis.
The latest attack in London was a lethal mix of religious dissimulation and Western naïveté. It also, one hopes, buries all the British illusions of deradicalizing jihadists. As the Times reported, the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), the so-called “nudge unit” formerly part of the Cabinet Office, had examined 33 deradicalization programs across the UK and found that only two were supposedly successful.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has suggested that relations between Moscow and NATO are “not just halted but…degrading every day,” citing a falloff that began “about five years ago.”
UPDATE, December 16: In the originally posted version of this article, I criticized a Norwegian translation of the Koran for whitewashing some of its more brutal passages. It turns out that the book contains reasonable translations of the passages in question; my confusion was caused by the fact that the verses in the Norwegian version are numbered in a way that differs from the standard numbering. I apologize for this inadvertent misrepresentation. – Bruce Bawer