This study is about al-Akhwat al-Muslimat— the Islamist women’s group formed by the Sudanese Islamist movement to counter among other things the communist influence among Sudanese women’s associations. This study seeks both to evaluate al-Akhwat political and gender activism and deconstruct the stereotype of Islamist/Muslim women as passive, without agency and perpetuating women’s subordination...

This paper will briefly examine how Al Qaeda evolved from an insurgency assistance group to a terrorist network of sophistication and global reach. It argues that Al Qaeda filled the needs of Islamist insurgencies and then developed into a complex system of networks by coopting other groups, hijacking their agendas and transforming their ideologies. Al Qaeda thus has global and local aspects. L...

Observers of contemporary politics know that Islamic extremism presents ‘the West’ with a serious challenge of national and international security consequent to terrorist events of recent time. In addition to constabulary and military responses, there remains the more fundamental question about how to understand Islamist ideology and how counternarratives might be framed in the interest of law ...

As images of beheaded American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff are seared into our consciousness, we would do well to honor their memories by recalling that they saw it as their mission to alert the world to the horrors committed by the fanatical Islamist terrorist group ISIS in Syria and Iraq: Children forced to view crucifixions and beheadings, women bartered, sold and raped, priso...

Violent Jihad in the Netherlands Current trends in the Islamist terrorist threat 2 3 Contents Foreword 5 Introduction 7 The murder of Theo van Gogh: consequences and effects 7 General trends in the development of jihadism 9 Framework of terms and definitions 10 1 From exogenous threat to home-grown terrorism 13 1.1 What is a jihadist network? 13 1.2 Historical development of network formation 1...

Twenty years ago, a number of significant objects in the United States underwent terrorist attacks. As result, several thousand people were killed, and members radical Islamist group Al-Qaeda its leader Osama bin Laden declared terrorists, although there are other opinions about organizers customers these In this article, author examines ideological prerequisites that have been accumulated for ...

This article uses a game-theoretic approach to analyze the risk of cross-milieu terrorist collaboration-the possibility that, despite marked ideological differences, extremist groups from very different milieus might align to a degree where operational collaboration against Western societies becomes possible. Based upon theoretical insights drawn from a variety of literatures, a bargaining mode...