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25/09/2015

Rise of jihadism in the West: Product of modernity.- Jordi Torres Roselló

One of the main problems in analyzing Daesh has been the comparison with other Islamist terrorist groups, the main objective of which was to turn the History clock back, in order to achieve the Koran times of the Prophet. Ironically, this comparison may well have done the wrong thing, underestimating the terrorist organization, seen as a medieval anachronism.
In order to understand why the Daesh black and gold flag is waving over a territory larger than United Kingdom, we do not have to search the causes in the Koran nor in any particular mosque or madrasa. The rise of jihadism in the West is strictly related with the globalization process, the media, and the use of social networks. The 2.0 Jihad working on Internet and the use of cruel images to exploit the “pull effect”; both are a western modernity product.

Author: Jordi Torres Roselló

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