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well, I am glad someone in the media is noticing...but they are wrong I think, when you don't ante up, you get no seat at the table.
the title appears to be something of an oxymoron to me, are there peaceful jihadists?
Militant jihadists rise in Arab world imperils regions stability
The proliferation of militant jihadi groups across the Arab world is posing a new threat to the regions stability, presenting fresh challenges to emerging democracies and undermining prospects for a smooth transition in Syria should the regime fall.
From Egypts Sinai desert to eastern Libya and the battlegrounds of Syrias civil war, the push for greater democracy made possible by revolts in the Middle East and North Africa has also unleashed new freedoms that militants are using to preach, practice and recruit.
The rise of militant jihadists in the region is one of the reasons that Western policymakers have been reluctant to arm the opposition in Syria as the countrys 19-month-old conflict intensifies.
Most of the new groups have emerged in response to local grievances, and there are few signs that they have established meaningful organizational ties with the global al-Qaeda terrorist movement or even have transnational ambitions, analysts say. But many of them embrace ideologies akin to those espoused by al-Qaeda and as last months attack on the American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi illustrated could threaten U.S. interests.
The potential now for the globalization of these groups is there due to the fact that there is significant ideological similarity, said Aaron Zelin, an expert on jihadist movements at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The likelihood becomes greater if there is stigmatization of these groups as being part of al-Qaedas global jihad and if, in their own societies, they are pushed deeper into the fringes.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged the scope of the threat from such movements in an address Friday that outlined the challenges for U.S. policymakers in North Africa.
A year of democratic transition was never going to drain away reservoirs of radicalism built up through decades of dictatorship, she said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. As weve learned from the beginning, there are extremists who seek to exploit periods of instability and hijack these democratic transitions.
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Militant jihadists’ rise in Arab world imperils region’s stability - The Washington Post
the title appears to be something of an oxymoron to me, are there peaceful jihadists?
Militant jihadists rise in Arab world imperils regions stability
The proliferation of militant jihadi groups across the Arab world is posing a new threat to the regions stability, presenting fresh challenges to emerging democracies and undermining prospects for a smooth transition in Syria should the regime fall.
From Egypts Sinai desert to eastern Libya and the battlegrounds of Syrias civil war, the push for greater democracy made possible by revolts in the Middle East and North Africa has also unleashed new freedoms that militants are using to preach, practice and recruit.
The rise of militant jihadists in the region is one of the reasons that Western policymakers have been reluctant to arm the opposition in Syria as the countrys 19-month-old conflict intensifies.
Most of the new groups have emerged in response to local grievances, and there are few signs that they have established meaningful organizational ties with the global al-Qaeda terrorist movement or even have transnational ambitions, analysts say. But many of them embrace ideologies akin to those espoused by al-Qaeda and as last months attack on the American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi illustrated could threaten U.S. interests.
The potential now for the globalization of these groups is there due to the fact that there is significant ideological similarity, said Aaron Zelin, an expert on jihadist movements at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The likelihood becomes greater if there is stigmatization of these groups as being part of al-Qaedas global jihad and if, in their own societies, they are pushed deeper into the fringes.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton acknowledged the scope of the threat from such movements in an address Friday that outlined the challenges for U.S. policymakers in North Africa.
A year of democratic transition was never going to drain away reservoirs of radicalism built up through decades of dictatorship, she said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. As weve learned from the beginning, there are extremists who seek to exploit periods of instability and hijack these democratic transitions.
more at-
Militant jihadists’ rise in Arab world imperils region’s stability - The Washington Post
