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5/3/2020
The Untold Story of Boko Haram’s Origins
by Jacob Zenn
Researchers who view Boko Haram as a Nigerian unsurgency need to understand its history as part of pan-African Islamist networks; responses to extremism must work across national borders.
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SOURCE: Middle East Forum
2-26-15
Empowering Jihad: The Deadly Myth of a 'Root Cause'
by Phyllis Chesler
Blaming Islamist horrors on poverty only obscures the true problem: Jihadists are driven by an ideology — one that yearns to "restore" a mythical caliphate, one governed by the most austere version of Sharia law.
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12-28-14
Why Pakistan’s Embrace of Jihadism Is Deadly
by Brian Glyn Williams
The back story to the Peshawar School Massacre.
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