scholarly journals International terrorist organization "Islamic State": history, contemporaneity, future

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislav Vyacheslavovich Krasinsky ◽  
Vladislav Valerevich Mashko
Keyword(s):  
Islamic State ◽  
State History ◽  
Terrorist Organization

scholarly journals Jihadist war or a challenge of disintegration?

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-250
Author(s):  
Péter Balogh
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Terrorist Organization ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The One ◽  
Foreign Fighters

In this paper we introduce some relevant research results about the role of social embeddedness and social resources in the sphere of social conflicts and violence. In accordance with the actual state of the investigation process the outcomes presented in this analysis are focusing on the activities of the so called ‘Islamic State’or ISIS – considered to be a rather effective terrorism exporter recently. After briefly outlining the broader – global – context of terrorist organizations, the particular characteristics of the activities of ISIS and some elements of the conceptual frame, the study highlights empirically two potential explaining factors of the success of the terrorist organization. On the one hand the influencing network – primarily linked to the cyber sphere – of the Islamic State is explored, demonstrating a notable focus on the developed countries of Europe. On the other hand the paper summarizes the main conclusions from a case study on the recruitment base of the militants in Brussels of the terrorist organization investigating the relationship between the territorial distribution of the ISIS foreign fighters in city and the extent of segregation of the Islamic population in the different districts, including also certain socio-demographic factors to shed light on the significance of the broader – unfavourable – social context.

scholarly journals Peculiarities of Mental and Behavioral Disorders in Children Released from Iraqi Prison

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-235
Author(s):  
N.M. Zakharova ◽  
A.V. Milekhina
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Disorders ◽  
Dynamic Monitoring ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Psychological Examination ◽  
Terrorist Organization ◽  
Long Time ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Mental And Behavioral Disorders

The article provides data from a survey of 61 children (members of families of militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization) released from an Iraqi prison. Mental, psychological and behavioral disorders identified during clinical and psychological examination are described. The role of multiple psycho-traumatic factors in the construction of mental disorders in children who are forced to stay in a zone of local military conflict for a long time and survived heavy losses is shown. Based on the results, 6 groups were identified, united by similar symptoms and gender-age characteristics. It is noted that such general psychodynamic trends as a delay in psychophysical development and pedagogical neglect come to the fore, accompanied by situationally caused anxiety-depressive reactions provoked by additional psycho-traumatic factors (separation from mother, change of habitual settings and environment). The necessity of taking into account the religious, ethical and ethno-cultural characteristics in the examination and development of a set of rehabilitation measures for these children is shown. Attention is focused on the difficulties of adaptation and rehabilitation of this population in a society which is new for them, constant dynamic monitoring of the examined is justified.

"The Islamic State": from Terrorism to Genocide

10.12737/6587 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 0-0 ◽  
Author(s):  
Самвел Кочои ◽  
Samvyel Kochoi
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
International Community ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
Terrorist Organization ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
Available Information ◽  
First Time

The first time in Russian legal science discusses the crimes committed by the terrorist organization “Islamic State / Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (IS/ISIL), against minority communities — Yazidis in Iraq. Based on the analysis of available information (reports of the UN and other international organizations, publications in Russian and foreign mass media) is substantiated conclusion about the presence of elements of the genocide in the acts of the members of the IS/ISIL. It is emphasized that the international community faced genocide, which was committed organization recognized as a terrorist. Invited to take coordinated by the international community measures to deprivation of members of the IS/ISIL freedom of movement between States and to prevent they commit terrorist acts on his return to the States, natives or citizens whom they represent.

Living with Terrorism: Unimaginable Nightmare or Prospective Reality

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome H. Kahan
Keyword(s):  
War On Terror ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Global War On Terror ◽  
Dangerous Situation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Terrorist Organization ◽  
Global War

Abstract Nine days after the transformational 9/11 attacks, President G.W. Bush proclaimed that the nation is fighting a Global War on Terror (GWOT), an attention-grabbing phrase designed as a rallying cry for America to win the battle against al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations threatening our homeland as well as our allies and interests abroad. Eight years later, President Obama inherited what had become an even more dangerous situation, which led to the unexpected and courage attack that felled bin Laden and splintered al Qaeda. However, this success was short-lived when the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) suddenly emerged as our primary terrorist adversary – a new and brutal threat that President Obama vowed to “degrade and ultimately destroy” by doing what it takes to win the war against this and other terrorist organizations. While there has been some progress in halting and reversing ISIS territorial gains with the US providing support to newly trained Iraqi forces, this terrorist organization is not fully contained and far from being destroyed.

scholarly journals Islamic state: Between myth and reality

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Zeljko Bjelajac
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The World ◽  
Terrorist Organization ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Specific Stage ◽  
Islamic Extremism

Contemporary Islamic religious fanaticism and terrorism is increasing in spite of the opposition of the international community and the measures taken to combat trafficking. In today?s highly complex and in many ways a specific stage of development of society, there was a typical terrorist formation - the Islamic state, which has seen such a rise that has become the strongest, largest and richest terrorist organization in the world. Because of its ideology and goals, brutality and violence that implements, it generates a huge threat to regional and global security generally speaking. Until a decade ago, this kind of epilogue to the expansion of Islamic extremism and terrorism was virtually unthinkable. That is why the title of this paper is trying to suggest to all the controversy and intricacy of global Islamist trends, linking radical fundamentalism, the state in which the dominating Muslim population and the Islamic religion, and terrorism is above all a product of the strengthening of radical Islamic teachings-wahhabism.

scholarly journals The political language of modern Islamism: practices of legitimation of the International Terrorist Organization “Islamic State” (terrorist organization banned in Russia)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Andrey Ruslanovich Suleimenov ◽  
Igor' Valer'evich Ryzhov
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Terrorist Organization ◽  
Political Linguistics ◽  
The Times ◽  
Administrative Structures ◽  
The Russian Language

This article analyzes the ways of legitimation that are characteristic to the Russian-language propaganda of the terrorist group “Islamic State” that is banned in Russia. The arguments the extremist propaganda resorts to are revealed on the example of the online magazine “Istok”: founded on Muslim law, legitimation on the basis of Quranic texts, appeal to moral justice of the establishment of “Caliphate”, and positioning of “Caliphate” as the traditional sovereign state with its attributes. Description is given to the peculiarities of the Russian-language jihadist propaganda and radical discourse of the “Islamic State” overall: an important distinctive feature of the Islamist propaganda is the archaic motives. Having studied the propagandistic materials, the author outlines such features of jihadist propaganda as propensity to determinism and fatalism, orientation towards eschatological worldview, reference of the logical and political arguments to the times of the establishment of Islam. Application of the methods of political linguistics to the information product of terrorist organization reveals the basic strategy of legitimization of the “Islamic State”, which resorts to the archaic, establishment of the “caliphate” of Islamists to the time of origination of Islam and the era of the “righteous caliphs”. The elements of the traditional state are largely translated onto the external, non-Muslim environment: coverage of the activity of the administrative structures of Islamic State, demonstration of the own economic system, and abundance of national symbols. The analysis of propagandistic materials allows concluding on the nominal role of the leader of the jihadist group Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whose name is associated not only with the phenomenal success of the jihadist project, but also the equally painful defeat that the “Islamic State” suffered in the end.

scholarly journals Making Sense of Radicalization

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Farid Senzai
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Terrorist Group ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
International Media ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Terrorist Organization

The self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) burning to deathof Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasba and beheading of twenty-one Egyptiansin Libya are just the latest incidents in a series of escalating acts of violencethat epitomize the seemingly senseless carnage that so often results from thepolitical radicalization of individual Muslims. As the international media zeroesin on such instances, one often struggles to make sense of the perpetrators’true motives. But understanding the circumstances that lead up to such viciousnessis key if governments are to minimize such acts in the future.What motivates an individual to join a terrorist organization? Is it ideology,politics, poverty, or something else? What might be done to de-radicalize anindividual who has joined a terrorist group? The reality is that there is no singlepathway toward radicalization. In a May 2010 report entitled “Why Youth Joinal-Qaeda,”1 U.S. Army Colonel Matt Venhaus suggested that those seeking tojoin jihadist networks can be divided into revenge seekers needing an outletfor their frustration, status seekers needing recognition, identity seekers in needof a group to join, and thrill seekers looking for adventure.2 Clearly the motivesfor terrorism are differentiated and complex, as opposed to uniform and simple.Thus identifying an overarching pattern to understanding how individualsmight become susceptible to terrorist recruiters and what intervention strategiescan be employed to stop it becomes a very difficult task ...

scholarly journals A Revista Dabiq e a construção do inimigo: uma análise das classificações utilizadas pelo DAESH para nomear os seus opositores | The Dabiq Magazine and the construction of the enemy: an analysis of the classifications used by the DAESH to nominate its opponents

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. e42711
Author(s):  
Leandro Loureiro Costa
Keyword(s):  
Social World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Terrorist Organization ◽  
Radical Substitution ◽  
Political Security ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Islamic Extremism

A organização terrorista Estado Islâmico tem sido obstáculo para a segurança política em diversas regiões do mundo. Esta incerteza ocorre tanto pela promoção de atentados, mas também pela capacidade do grupo em recrutar indivíduos para que lutem pelos seus interesses. Para tal objetivo, desenvolveu-se uma máquina de propaganda com poder de construir representações demonizadas do inimigo e criar fortes identificações para os que partilham das ideias da organização. Esta pesquisa se baseou na Revista Dabiq para analisar como o mundo social do grupo foi construído. A partir dos seus textos e imagens foi possível compreender quais são os elementos que o compõem, dando subsídios para estudos mais específicos sobre a problemática do extremismo islâmico. Estes padrões lexicais caracterizam os chamados “inimigos” do Estado Islâmico, além da própria identificação do “eu” do grupo estar diretamente ligada a definição do “outro”, são parte de uma visão de mundo que busca responder às crises da modernidade, propondo uma substituição radical baseada na violência.Palavras-chave: Estado Islâmico; Revista Dabiq; Extremismo Islâmico. ABSTRACTThe terrorist organization Islamic State has been an obstacle to political security in various regions of the world. This uncertainty occurs both for the promotion of attacks, but also for being able to recruit young people around the world to fight in accordance with the interests of the group. To this end, a propaganda machine was developed with the power to construct demonized representations of the enemy and to create strong identifications for those who share the ideas of the organization. This research was based on Dabiq Magazine to analyze how the social world of the group was constructed. From its texts and images it was possible to understand which are the elements that make up the same, giving subsidies for more specific studies on the problematic of Islamic extremism. These lexical patterns characterize the so-called "enemies" of the Islamic State, and the very identification of the group's "I" is directly linked to this definition of the "other." These are part of a worldview that seeks to respond to the crises of modernity by proposing a radical substitution based on violence.Keywords: Islamic State; Dabiq Magazine; Islamic Extremism. Recebido em 14 mai.2019 | Aceito em 19 ago.2019.

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