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Who are the new jihadis?

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This is a research based article about the similarities between modern jihadi terrorists, and how our preconceptions about their origins and motives may be outdated.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/apr/13/who-are-the-new-jihadis?CMP=share_btn_tw

Biographies of ‘homegrown’ European terrorists show they are violent nihilists who adopt Islam, rather than religious fundamentalists who turn to violence

"...The perpetrators of terrorist attacks in France in the 1970s and 1980s, whether or not they had any connection with the Middle East, carefully planned their escapes. Muslim tradition, while it recognises the merits of the martyr who dies in combat, does not prize those who strike out in pursuit of their own deaths, because doing so interferes with God’s will. So, why, for the past 20 years, have terrorists regularly chosen to die? What does it say about contemporary Islamic radicalism? And what does it say about our societies today?"

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