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Thursday, 28 April 2016

The French Connection, Explaining Sunni militancy around the world, Parts I & II

William McCants and Christopher Meserole’s exhaustive two-part series on terrorism hones in on “an unsettling truth: Jihadists pose a greater threat to France and Belgium than to the rest of Europe. The body counts are larger and the disrupted plots are more numerous… our research reveals that another factor may be at play: French political culture… It turns out that the best predictor of foreign fighter radicalization was … whether a country was Francophone,” the two authors argued last month in Part I. Their most recent installment, published on Monday, looks more closely on the relationship between radicalization, enforced secularism, and national dialogues surrounding bans on Islamic veils. Both parts are relevant to not just France and Belgium but for the region as well. (Read Part I and Part II)

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