... 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 influence from AQAP and the ISIS ...
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
[1]
. . 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 by the leader of the group the attack was carefully planned, with France ...
... capital of the Chechen Republic.
A robust intercultural and interreligious dialogue appears to be the only weapon against Islamist terrorism whose proponents are working hard to destroy these connections. Solidarity must be shown not only with the
Charlie Hebdo
victims, but also toward all those who have suffered from terrorism in the world. Otherwise, Islamist preachers will acquire one more argument in support of their world vision.
BULENT KILIC / AFP
Marc Hecker:
Jihad in Syria and in Iraq: a
Сhallenge
for France
The extended conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq ...
... Eurasia. An awareness that radical political Islam poses a real
common
threat may be an important incentive to try to turn this logic around. Islam’s victories in one area would stimulate its advance in others.
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Berlin rally for Charlie Hebdo victims
Barring a radical change of course by Russia and the West, the need to cooperate in counteracting Islamic terrorism may help to overcome or mitigate the current crisis in relations between Russia and the Western democracies, which would realize that an excessive weakening of Russia is not in their interests. France may be the proponent of this course, although ...
