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Global Patterns of Terrorism Are Dominated by Extremism in Largely Muslim States. The first section of the report makes it clear that the patterns of extremist violence are dominated by violence in largely Muslim states and by extremist movements that claim to represent Islamic values.
- North Africa
The New State Department Report on Terrorism: Rethinking the...
- Afghanistan
As security threats continue to evolve in Afghanistan, we...
- Egypt and the Levant
The Middle East Program houses much of CSIS’s expertise...
- The Gulf
The Middle East Program leads CSIS’s analysis of key trends...
- Counterterrorism and Homeland Security
As terrorism continues to evolve, the fight against...
- North Africa
Islamic terrorism (also known as Islamist terrorism or radical Islamic terrorism) refers to terrorist acts with religious motivations carried out by fundamentalist militant Islamists and Islamic extremists.
Muslim attitudes toward terrorism. There is a wide range of Muslim attitudes towards terrorism . The killing of innocent human beings (whether Muslim or non-Muslim) and unlawful confiscation of property are major sins in Islam and strictly forbidden by sharia. [1] [2] Condemnation and opposition.
The Islamisation of terrorism. Perhaps the most damaging legacy of 9/11, however, has been the homogenisation and Islamisation of the terror threat. This has resulted in the conflation of Islam...
The 9/11 attacks created upheaval for Muslims worldwide. Successive U.S. administrations have attempted to debunk al-Qaeda’s anti-West narrative and improve relations with Muslims, but challenges...
A series of charts tracing the global, Islamic, and MENA wide patterns in terrorism from 2005-2015 show that terrorism in largely Islamic regions accounted for some 83% of terrorism during this period. They also show a major shift in the global patterns of assassinations to Islamic areas.
Although research shows that most domestic terrorism is not perpetrated by Muslims, Arabs, or those originating from the Middle East, the racialized stereotype of terrorists had a major impact on how the War on Terror was executed and how its implementation affected members of certain minority groups in the United States. Keywords.
