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Burke covers a lot of important ground in a compact narrative. Draws together the strands of a highly complex reality to create a picture that is not just convincing but readable. It is distinctly different from other books on jihadist organizations in that it puts the Islamic State in the right perspective. It provides a dispassionate analysis of the Islamic State. This book is scholarly and highly readable at the same time. It is a must-read for those who want to defeat Islamic terrorism. No hyperbole required. By no means does Burke trivialize the threat or question its existence. But he argues that to treat that threat as existential is to commit a categorical error. So too is any tendency to view Islamic militancy as monolithic or static. News and Reviews The Takeaway. See more. The Guardian UK. You may also be interested in. Edge of the Knife. Police Violence in the Americas. A Few Thousand Dollars. Sparking Prosperity for Everyone. Challenges for the Armed Forces in a Time of War. Extremely Loud. Sound as a Weapon. Donate to The New Press. Stay connected! Sign up to receive newsletters and event invitations. Sign me up for: Newsletter. Academic offers. Bookseller updates. Librarian updates. The book is very good at explaining how Islamic militants view the West, particularly on the moral side of things. It more about how they see it as a threat to their own society, and how the answer to that threat is to return to the fundamentals of religion as they interpret it. Your next book is by a not-so-well-known author, but nevertheless a very good researcher. This is. Yes, I have chosen it because it is a very, very good example of the sort of books you need if you are working in this field. It is meticulous, it is neutral, it is detailed and it is written with one sole aim in mind, which is to tell people what is happening, what has happened and why it has happened, in terms of radical Muslims and Islamic militants in a key country. A fantastic source, and if we had one book like this on every major country which has had problems with militancy and written by an author like this, who fluently speaks the local language and has spent a lot of his time there researching his topic, it would be incredibly useful and we would be much better off. It is just the opposite of so much which is written about Islamic militancy which is badly researched, heavily commercial or slanted and very unhelpful. Saudi Arabia is certainly the heartland of rigorous conservative Islamic practices and clearly the homeland of Osama bin Laden, but then if you look at the senior leadership of Al-Qaeda today you have got as many Egyptians and Libyans in there as well. What kind of changes have you seen in Islamic militancy over recent months since the death of Osama bin Laden? It is too early to tell in a sense. That is when there was the critical intensity of the conflict. But since then Al-Qaeda has been increasingly on the back foot. A very simple reason. They had one key objective back in when they formed Al-Qaeda — to use spectacular acts of violence to radicalise and mobilise the Islamic world to use force and rise up against local rulers. That goal has not been achieved because Muslims across the world have shown themselves to be revolted by violence when they see it up close. That is critical. When, early on, the violence was in America or a long way away, it was much easier for communities to feel supportive of what was going on. Yes, it was idealised. When the violence actually came to Pakistan, to Saudi Arabia, to Jordan, to Egypt, to Morocco and to Algeria in successive waves in the middle of the last decade, then the support for any kind of violence dropped away very rapidly. It is very similar to how people are in the West and shows we are all more similar than we might think. It goes back to my earlier point that Islamic militants are ordinary people just like us. The communities they come from are ordinary. Basically, anything you want to know about how terrorism works you can find in this book. It is not necessarily about who is behind terrorism because in this book it is a shadowy foreign state that wants an agent provocateur in London to explode Greenwich Observatory to make a point. But the broad picture that Conrad paints of how ideologies work, of how people get drawn into violence and how amateurish it can so often be, is true of much of terrorism worldwide. It goes wrong in The Secret Agent , by the way, and the wrong person ends up getting killed. Get the weekly Five Books newsletter. And thankfully, militants are often very amateurish as well. So this book strikes me as a deeply useful reminder of what this kind of religious or political activism is about. I liked the book for a variety of reasons. It is well written and well researched and makes a series of good points. The most interesting point to me was about identity. This book is all about the fatwa which came out against Salman Rushdie after he wrote his book The Satanic Verses in The real point which he makes, which I really like, is that back in the s he was angry, campaigning and politicised but on a race basis. It was all about being black. Kenan Malik is of Indian background and he lives in England. I wonder what the next shift will be. Support Five Books. Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. If you're enjoying this interview, please support us by donating a small amount. Fatwas are so powerful they can go beyond borders to the West. The fatwa was about globalising Islam. Salman Rushdie is still alive and writing. And the argument I make in my book about why Islamic militancy has failed in the way that it has failed is because people, on the whole, are much less global than we have been led to imagine. I am afraid I think that societies are primarily ruled by what happens locally. That could be in villages, in neighbourhoods, among their friends and their brothers. One of the primary predictors of militant behaviour is having a member of your family engaged in the same activity rather than some big global reason. Five Books aims to keep its book recommendations and interviews up to date. If you are the interviewee and would like to update your choice of books or even just what you say about them please email us at editor fivebooks. 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Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. Home 1 Books 2. Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Overview "The book on jihad that Donald Trump needs to read. In The New Threat prizewinning frontline reporter Jason Burke cuts through the mass of opinion and misinformation to explain the nature of the threat we now face. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, The New Threat offers insight into the rise of ISIS and other groups, such as Boko Haram, which together command significant military power, rule millions, and control extensive territories. The view is consistently fascinating. Osama Bin Laden did not attack the World Trade Center because he wanted to kill people but because he was failing to attract attention for his pronouncements. Bin Laden had looked with longing at what he saw as the golden age of the long-departed caliphate. Al-Baghdadi trumped him by declaring that Allah had chosen him to be the new caliph. Al-Baghdadi seems to have an issue with non-Muslims generally. Topics Politics books Book of the day. Islamic State reviews. Reuse this content. It is increasingly marginalized as a result. Organizations pledging allegiance to IS are compared to inkspots appearing around the globe. One example is Boko Haram. Where else are inkspots forming? Where could they form in the future? You basically see the inkspots forming where several factors are unified: a prior history of Islamic militancy or at least activism locally, a degree of marginalization in cultural, economic, political or economic terms, some effective local actors on the militant side, some ineffective local actors on the government or local authorities side and a more general lack of governance. This is dynamic of course. So where governance is established or certain actors eliminated, militancy will go into decline, or likewise surge where there is a particular change that brings a breakdown in law and order. The Arab Spring brought the latter on a vast scale, so many of the IS inkspots we see today are emerging in places like eastern Libya, north- eastern Nigeria, parts of Afghanistan, the Egyptian Sinai desert, and so on. How do you get a person like that to talk about his past? The one I interviewed in Iraq was quite happy to talk. I think it helped that I instinctively shook his hand when we were introduced, something I later regretted. The same as when you are interviewing any bereaved relatives. Tread softly, show respect. A lot is unsaid, implicit too. Having a very good translator is a must. My own local languages are too rudimentary to pick up on all the nuances. Have you ever been forced to reconsider your views on militancy after an interview? Have you ever conducted an interview with someone who made you understand the allure of a call to arms? I went off to spend time with Kurdish pershmerga guerillas in Iraq when I was a student. The psychological and social barriers to actually committing violence are much higher, of course, but the actual mechanics of how a person becomes involved are fairly universal. We see this very clearly with the recent attacks in Paris. You have friends, relatives, brothers, all linked pretty closely. If the killers had been taken off somewhere against their will and indoctrinated, it would have been much less concerning. Subscribe to Five Dials. It's free. The New Threat From Islamic Militancy by Burke, Jason Book The Fast Free | eBay

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There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Show 0 comments. Sign up Already have an account? Update preferences. Comments Share your thoughts and debate the big issues. Already registered? Log in. Cancel Delete comment. Cancel Flag comment. Independent Premium comments 0 Independent Premium comments Open comments 0 open comments. Join the discussion. Join the discussion Create a commenting name to join the debate Submit. Reply Delete 0 0. Cancel Post. Obama, who is a highly intelligent man being properly advised by well-informed specialists, is no doubt well aware that the IS is more than a terrorist organization, but recognizes that there is little room for a complex and nuanced description, and a complex and nuanced debate, in the current environment. Any analysis — including my own — necessarily involves a degree of simplification. The question is what degree? Is IS failing in its attempt to create a different form of government? Is it becoming a traditional nation state? The project of the Islamic State is evolving all the time. The IS has made a major effort to explicitly base its appeal on the rejection of boundaries imposed by colonialists in the twentieth century and adopted by later regimes in the region. None of this is exactly unfamiliar locally. The Islamic militants follow an agenda which has a global, expansionist drive at its heart, but which is supposed to convince people who are usually much more interested in local issues. All politics is local, and almost all conflict is too. So the aggregated vision of a global war between belief and unbelief, Islam and the West, etc. The message sent is that this movement, this project is still moving forward, it is both expanding and enduring, as the IS motto has it. The forward movement is absolutely essential to maintain credibility, appeal and the sense that this is a divinely favoured venture. The militants also seek to control the behaviour of their population — the logic is that only if all Muslims are good Muslims and follow the shariat, the true path, to the letter will the community be able to withstand the onslaught of the unbelievers — and do not seek consent. This is pretty tough for many people to accept. The result is that the Islamic militants have to lever local rivalries to gain support, win over individual power brokers, or simply coerce people into staying in line. Almost every Islamic militant effort to create a state has ended up with an increasing level of violence towards the people they are supposed to be ruling, simply because the package they are offering is only attractive in the most extreme circumstances — such as the Syrian civil war. Militants want the active support of local people, not just their passive acquiescence but eventually tend to end up with neither. In the new book you present al-Qaeda as an ageing presence — not great at technology, unwilling to change. Does al-Qaeda not care as much about production values? But we see it as an opportunistic exploitation of technical tools. This is too narrow. The evolution of media technology has not just determined the choice of tactics from suicide attacks to execution videos, but the very structure of the organizations themselves. This has always been the case with terrorists, but is more marked than ever now. Indeed, of all the various factors influencing the evolution of Islamic extremist terrorist activity, this may be the most important. So yes, al-Qaeda has been very late in catching up on the potential of modern technology and has been less influenced by its capabilities. It is not necessarily about who is behind terrorism because in this book it is a shadowy foreign state that wants an agent provocateur in London to explode Greenwich Observatory to make a point. But the broad picture that Conrad paints of how ideologies work, of how people get drawn into violence and how amateurish it can so often be, is true of much of terrorism worldwide. It goes wrong in The Secret Agent , by the way, and the wrong person ends up getting killed. Get the weekly Five Books newsletter. And thankfully, militants are often very amateurish as well. So this book strikes me as a deeply useful reminder of what this kind of religious or political activism is about. I liked the book for a variety of reasons. It is well written and well researched and makes a series of good points. The most interesting point to me was about identity. This book is all about the fatwa which came out against Salman Rushdie after he wrote his book The Satanic Verses in The real point which he makes, which I really like, is that back in the s he was angry, campaigning and politicised but on a race basis. It was all about being black. Kenan Malik is of Indian background and he lives in England. I wonder what the next shift will be. Support Five Books. Five Books interviews are expensive to produce. If you're enjoying this interview, please support us by donating a small amount. Fatwas are so powerful they can go beyond borders to the West. The fatwa was about globalising Islam. Salman Rushdie is still alive and writing. And the argument I make in my book about why Islamic militancy has failed in the way that it has failed is because people, on the whole, are much less global than we have been led to imagine. I am afraid I think that societies are primarily ruled by what happens locally. 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