Frontpage Mag The fresh young face of jihad in Europe.
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Like car models and fashion trends, styles in terrorism are transformed over time. Such, at least, was the main thrust of a recent article in Le Monde. Noting that ten years had passed since the November 13, 2015, attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis, in which 130 people were killed and 416 injured, Christophe Ayad observed that while terrorism in la belle Republique hasn’t abated since then, it’s “completely changed in nature.”
Meaning what? Meaning that in France, at least, the the age of good old-fashioned organized jihadist mayhem, perpetrated by large squads of well-trained and well-supplied young Muslims whose backgrounds are in North Africa and who are card-carrying members of some recognized terrorist group like ISIS or Al-Qaeda, has given way, to a considerable degree, to a more catch-as-catch-can freelance setup, with bloodthirsty atrocities being performed by individuals, duos, or very small groups of Muslims who are less likely to trace their lineage to the Maghreb than to be relatively recent arrivals from Chechnya, Dagestan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, or Afghanistan. Some of these newfangled enemies within are acting on the orders of domestic or foreign Muslim criminal organizations – which, while carrying out the occasional act of terrorism (often on commission from some traditional terrorist group), specialize in the trafficking of narcotics – while others, apparently a majority, have acted independently, taking such pros as role models. Hence Ayad’s name for this new chapter in the French front in the war for civilization: “the era of inspired terrorism.”
There’s one detail about this new breed of terrorists in France that’s especially striking. They’re not just young, like most terrorists. They’re very young – in their early teens, or even younger.
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