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BRUSSELS – Several years ago, as terrorism, immigration, and unrest in suburban Paris were at the top of the news in France, a French police officer confided to a researcher: “If you consider different levels of trafficking, it is obviously done by blacks and Arabs.
It is counter-productive in the campaign against terrorism.
Stops and searches conducted under counter-terrorism powers in Europe have produced few terrorism charges and no convictions.
When the police use ethnic profiling, they project an image of being tough on crime and terrorism.
The solution is not to ignore the threat of terrorism, but to address the threat more intelligently.
The EU should combat radicalization by addressing exclusion, not by conflating conservative religious faith with terrorism.
In the heady first months after it came to power, the Bush administration laid out a bold new vision that gave India – a rising Asian democracy on China’s border, proximate to the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean and to the epicenter of Islamist terrorism – a starring role in US foreign policy.
The argument to India was essentially this: You need us to realize your ambition to become a major world power, and we share a concern over China’s rise and Islamist terrorism, so let’s work together.
India’s list of misguided responses to terrorism is almost as long.
Its Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA), enacted after the September 11, 2001, attacks on America by the then ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government, contains many of the features enshrined in the Patriot Act: an overly vague definition of what constitutes terrorism or unlawful acts, immunity from prosecution for law-enforcement or government agents, and expansion of wire-tapping.
Meanwhile, a commission that the government charged with investigating the state-condoned massacres of Muslim citizens in Gujarat in 2002 produced only a whitewash, absolving the perpetrators of any wrongdoing – and fueling a further rise in homegrown terrorism by deeply disaffected Indian Muslims.
When they acknowledge “differences” with Saudi Arabia concerning how and where to fight terrorism, they sound like they are describing a disagreement between Roosevelt and Churchill about where precisely the Allies should strike Nazi Germany.
It is often alleged that the Saudis export terrorism.
The world must unite behind all efforts to eradicate poverty as a vital first step toward overcoming the many other challenges – from migration to terrorism – that we face today.
At the end of the 1990’s, Syria and Turkey were on the brink of war, owing to Syria’s support of Kurdish terrorism.
Worldwide, the detentions at Guantanamo Bay and President Bush's military tribunals have become symbols of America's readiness to abandon concern for rights in the name of the struggle against terrorism.
Yet, in most cases, terrorism is not rooted in insanity.
Islamist terrorism is a reflection, indeed an extension, of today’s wars in the Middle East.
Long before there was Islamist terrorism in the West, the United Kingdom, France, and the US relied on diplomatic chicanery and launched coups, wars, and covert operations in the Middle East to assert and maintain Western political control over the region.
To be clear, Western actions do not provide Islamist terrorism with a scintilla of justification.
The reason to point out these actions is to make clear what Islamist terrorism in the West represents to the terrorists: Middle East violence on an expanded front.
Ladies First, Women LastNEW YORK – Many people still believe that the attacks of September 11, 2001, were not just acts of political terrorism, but part of a cultural war, a clash of civilizations.
But even if it does not fail, the nexus between terrorist groups and Pakistan’s powerful military raises the specter of nuclear terrorism – a menace so large that the United States has prepared a contingency plan to take out the country’s fast-growing nuclear arsenal should the need arise.
But it is Pakistan’s neighbors that are bearing the brunt of its state-sponsored terrorism.
Sri Lanka’s prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has warned that “cross-border terrorism” imperils the very future of SAARC.
But diminished international standing and growing regional isolation have been insufficient to induce Pakistan’s dominant military to rethink its stance on terrorism.
US President Barack Obama’s administration also opposes a move in Congress that would officially brand Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism.
Achieving peace in Afghanistan, like stemming the spread of international terrorism, will be impossible without making the Pakistani military accountable to the country’s civilian government.
However, whereas previous waves of terrorism in Europe stemmed from internal conflicts, today’s deadly surge is linked to instability outside the continent.
These two modes of operation – insurgency and terrorism – go hand in hand.
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