January 30, 2017 7:19 am
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New Study Emphasizes Islamism as Foreign Fighters’ Main Motivation
avatar by Steven Emerson
ISIS terrorists. Photo: Wikipedia.
ISIS terrorists. Photo: Wikipedia.
Some prominent public figures and officials often claim that Islam has nothing to do with the jihadist terrorist violence spreading throughout the world. A recent academic study challenges this misguided view, by actually speaking to terrorist foreign fighters.
The authors of Talking to Foreign Fighters: Insights into the Motivations for Hijrah to Syria and Iraq — University of Waterloo sociologist Lorne L. Dawson, and George Washington University Program on Extremism Fellow Amaranth Amarasingam — published their findings after numerous conversations with 20 foreign fighters, mostly from the West. None of the jihadists cited socioeconomic grievances or other forms of disenfranchisement as a major role in their decisions to wage jihad abroad. Rather, the conversations largely revolved around their Islamist beliefs.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/01/30/new-study-emphasizes-islamism-as-foreign-fighters-main-motivation/
