... minds for a long time, the true nature of the attack remains dubious. RIAC team has asked
Jasmine Opperman
, director of African Operations of Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC) to share her opinion.
How can you account for the nature of Charlie Hebdo attacks? Was this an act of terrorism prepared by a foreign terrorist organization or "local" "homegrown" terrorists?
A distinction is needed between influence and actual planning and execution. That there has been ideological ...
Nasr al-Ansi, a commander of the predominantly Yemen-based terrorist organisation al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), recently made a statement in which he announced the organisation’s involvement in the shootings of the Charlie Hebdo editorial staff on 7 January, 2015 in Paris
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. . This act of terrorism was the biggest in AQAP’s history outside Yemen and was nothing other than revenge for the honour of the prophet Muhammad. At the same time, according to statements ...
... and liberties to openly recruit youths in mosques, Sunday schools and other institutions. At that, everybody thought that traditional liberal democratic values and tolerance were sufficient barriers to ward off religious fundamentalism.
However, the
Charlie Hebdo
attack of January 7, 2015 was executed by brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, the children of Algerian migrants who were born and grew up in France. Their accessory Amedy Coulibaly, the hostage-taker in a Paris kosher grocery store on January ...
... Fight Liberal Democracies from Within
The main question is what policy society is prepared to agree with when it comes to the limits of civil freedoms, the content and practice of using counter-terrorist laws.
The appalling murderof members of the
Charlie Hebdo
satirical magazine staff by the Kouachi brothers, who had just come back from Syria, was the most high-profile of a series of terrorist attacks staged by supporters of the Islamic State (IS), the Islamic radicals who seek to intimidate ...
