... 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 ...
... a desperate situation, when the ideas of a fairer world order are attracting hordes of grateful listeners.
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Islamic State. Questions and Answers
The new situation also requires adjustments to the liberal democratic model which is vehemently ... ... expression must be correlated with the religious feelings of the Muslims. Cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed have virtually become
Charlie Hebdo's
trademark and, ironically, play into the hands of the Islamists because they alienate moderate followers of the ...
... 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 French society and force the country to abandon its resistance to political Islamization in Africa (Mali) and in the Middle East (in the fight against the IS). As a result, the French people ...
