thanks.
the article reinforces my position though
the article reinforces my position though
a thrust of the article is excerpted below
''Jihadist Terrorism in the United States Remains Rare
''As the Bourbon Street attack suggests, the jihadist movement in the United States is resilient. However, the data so far do not indicate that it is resurgent comparable with its past peaks. The number of jihadist attacks and disrupted plots against the United States decreased after the territorial defeat of the Islamic State in 2019 and has stayed much lower than at the peak of its territorial control.
The decline in jihadist attacks in the United States is a complex phenomenon resulting from a variety of factors, some of which are out of policymakers' control.
Military pressure on the Islamic State has likely deprived would-be jihadist terrorists in the United States of an important source of support for their attacks.
The reduction in facilitated attacks may be credited, at least in part, to U.S. counterterrorist pressure. Although virtual facilitators do not require control over territory the way terrorist trainers of the past have, facilitation still requires skills like ideological persuasion or bomb-making training—skills that diminish within terrorist organizations when operatives are killed or captured.''
How does this align with my views?
Military force is critical in defeating and as a deterrent against violent ideologies, particularly those that want to overthrow the state.
Secondly, I hold that even in Northern Nigeria, with a Muslim majority population, any group that pursues its goals of creating a particular kind of Islamic society through terrorism rather than through the democratic process must never be legitimized, never be integrated into politics for any reason so as to avoid a degeneration into poisoned ideologies aligned with inhumane ways of reading the Quran and other foundations of Islamic thought.
There is a critical need to decouple Islam from the colonising and imperial culture of violent jihad, one of the greatest problems of the modern world.
Boko Haram, ISWAP, ISIS, who are seeking to impose their version of Islam on others through violence are of course different from Hamas who are seeking justice in connection with the loss of Palestinian homeland.
thanks
toyin
On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM John Edward Philips (Yahaya Danjuma) <yahaya.danjuma@gmail.com> wrote:
--On Dec 27, 2025, at 15:50, Oluwatoyin Adepoju <ovadepojuifa@gmail.com> wrote:How come there has been no further Islamist terrorist attack in the US after 9/11?This isn't quite true. Just because you haven't heard about something doesn't mean it didn't happen."Analysis of the jihadist attacks yields three main findings. First, the frequency of recorded jihadist attacks and plots against targets in the United States has been low since the territorial defeat of the Islamic State in 2019. . . ."Second, the lethality of jihadist terrorism in the United States has fallen since the territorial defeat of the Islamic State. . . ."Third, international terrorist organizations have inspired, not directed, jihadist terrorism in the United States,"
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