UNCONTROLLABLE AFGHANISTAN
Unfortunately, history seldom teaches us anything. Sometimes this is due to ignorance, because we don’t know history, and sometimes to presumption, because we underestimate history’s teachings. Such is the case with Afghanistan...
THE UIGHUR AND CHINA
The ISIS is now an international brand that can be spent anywhere a Muslim community is discriminated and persecuted. This is the case also for the Uighurs in China. The predominantly Islamic minority, speaking a Turkic language, is concentrated in the Chinese autonomous region of Xinjiang, where they represent about 45% of the population...
ON THE PREVENTION OF TERRORISM AND THE BARCELONA ATTACK
It was inevitable that, following the collapse of the caliphate in Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State would have fueled terrorism elsewhere. The episodes in Barcelona and Catalonia are not the first and will not be the last. The exodus of militants from war zones, their infallible ideological and religious approach to martyrdom, viewed as the only possible outcome, were all too predictable.
The Islamic State wants the dream of a caliphate to survive its demise. A terrorist attack embodies the ongoing struggle against an imaginary enemy. The fight takes a different form, but its motivations don’t. It is impossible to create a caliphate on Earth? Well then, the entire planet will become the target to strike, kill, remind the world of our existence and spread fear...
