The Role and Place of the Taliban on the Global Map of Islam: Challenges and Threats

The bigger threat facing the Central Asian countries is not the possibility of an invasion by the Taliban or other more radical groups but rather the example set ... ... organizations purportedly acting on behalf of Islam is that of “Salafi jihadism,” which was introduced in 2002 by the scholar Gilles ... ... Muslim countries during the first Afghan War (1979–1992) [ 1 ]. Salafism came to be the spiritual, doctrinal and methodological ... ... same chain, attesting to the growth of Islamist sentiments in the Middle East. Andrey Kazantsev: Afghanistan Crisis: Security Problems ...