Quote du Jour | Frankenstein’s monster
Distorted pseudo-religious ideologies don’t become capable of conquering vast areas of land and indoctrinating thousands of foot-soldiers, out of the blue, purely due to the power of fanatical belief. For violent extremism to translate into terrorism requires a material infrastructure: not just ideas, but the capacity to transmit those ideas, receptivity to those ideas, and concomitantly, the organisational training and networks to act on those ideas.
Alle goedbedoelde oproepen aan moslims om ‘afstand te nemen’ ten spijt, zullen islamdiscussies niets toe of afdoen aan IS, meent Nafeez Ahmed. Ook bommen en granaten kunnen de voedingsbodem onder IS slechts verder uitdiepen. De juiste diagnose is nodig.