Al Qaeda Recruitment Video: Pakistan
Politicians and pundits alike are still not completely unified as to what significance Pakistan is to a militant organization like Al Qaeda, some say it is their strong hold whilst others claim the clashes in the Sawat Valley are due to sectarian violence and not instigated by Al Qaeda.The reason why i believe this is relevant to extremism in the U.K is because it is still disputed as to whether these training videos and other on line media have a significant part to play in turning a U.K citizen into an extremist. Also the fact is that many extremists from the U.K (Al Qaeda members and other militant islamic organizations members) will visit Pakistan and attend these training camps. We must try and understand why. Why did Mohammad Sidique Khan attend training camps with the intention to kill British civilians? Is it just a question of cultural disenfranchisement? Why did he feel the compulsion to commit the atrocities that he did? Unless we can understand the mind set we will never be able to stop the problem.
What do you think?
What makes a terrorist? Can one be indoctrinated by on line extremist groups?
Below I've placed a link to part of an Al Qaeda training video and an on line pod-cast of Jonathan Paris' lecture at the International Center for the Study of Radicalism where he identifies terrorist activity as one of the 5 main challenges Pakistan must overcome.
(Article and segment from training video on Al Qaeda in Pakistan)
(Lecture on 5 challenges Pakistan faces, by Jonathan Paris at the ICSR)
Politicians and pundits alike are still not completely unified as to what significance Pakistan is to a militant organization like Al Qaeda, some say it is their strong hold whilst others claim the clashes in the Sawat Valley are due to sectarian violence and not instigated by Al Qaeda.The reason why i believe this is relevant to extremism in the U.K is because it is still disputed as to whether these training videos and other on line media have a significant part to play in turning a U.K citizen into an extremist. Also the fact is that many extremists from the U.K (Al Qaeda members and other militant islamic organizations members) will visit Pakistan and attend these training camps. We must try and understand why. Why did Mohammad Sidique Khan attend training camps with the intention to kill British civilians? Is it just a question of cultural disenfranchisement? Why did he feel the compulsion to commit the atrocities that he did? Unless we can understand the mind set we will never be able to stop the problem.
What do you think?
What makes a terrorist? Can one be indoctrinated by on line extremist groups?
Below I've placed a link to part of an Al Qaeda training video and an on line pod-cast of Jonathan Paris' lecture at the International Center for the Study of Radicalism where he identifies terrorist activity as one of the 5 main challenges Pakistan must overcome.
(Article and segment from training video on Al Qaeda in Pakistan)http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20090410-taliban-spread-terror-video-pakistan-islamist-extremism
(Lecture on 5 challenges Pakistan faces, by Jonathan Paris at the ICSR)
http://podcastmachine.com/podcasts/1700/episodes/18197
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