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razib

03:55:41 pm on June 7, 2008 | # | |
Tags: Terrorism

listening to stuff on international salafists on the radio and reading via book. one notable thing about the terrorist salafist international which focused on the “far enemy” was its high educational levels, social status and technical (engineering) orientation. recent data suggests that this is changing, and more lower class and less eduated muslims (some from the diaspora in western europe) with clearly nihilistic inclinations are filling the holes generated by the war of attrition. this is good from an american perspective because uneducated nihilists usually lack coordination and execution skills.
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thabet 12:13 am on June 8, 2008 | #

Marc Sageman has suggested that the new breed of terrorists in the West are young men with access to the internet, but little ideological connection to “jihadism”.
thabet 12:43 am on June 8, 2008 | #

Also, some of these Salafis have moderated somewhat. One prominent Salafi in the UK now talks about “Islamic secularism”. Another I met, goes around quoting Locke and Ghazali.

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