- Tytuł:
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Wpływ pandemii COVID-19 na radykalizację postaw i terroryzm
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on radicalization and terrorism - Autorzy:
- Izak, Krzysztof
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1062615.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2020
- Wydawca:
- Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego
- Tematy:
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ataki terrorystyczn
koronawirus
COVID-19
Państwo Islamskie
dżihadyści
pandemia
radykalizacja
terroryzm
terrorist attacks
coronaviru
Islamic State
jihadists
pandemic
radicalization
terrorism - Opis:
- The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the rhetoric of extremists and terrorist organizations towards communities that are ethnically, culturally and religiously alien to them. Muslim extremists see the pandemic as a divine punishment against China, the United States, Jews, Shiites, and Christians (Crusaders). There are also opinions from the category of conspiracy theory of history that the pandemic was caused by the Jews in order to take over the world. Hindu nationalists blame the Muslims for the pandemic in India, and the Chinese blame the Africans in Guangzhou. The latter, numbering around 300,000 residents are openly stigmatized and discriminated against. African Americans also experienced similar behavior. COVID-19 has also been treated as a biological weapon. Neo-Nazis and white supremacists in the United States are calling on those infected supporters to contact police officers, federal officials, and Jews directly to transmit the coronavirus to them. Isolation and restricted contacts in order to contain the spread of the pandemic drew the attention of many people to social media. They are spreading disinformation, videos published on YouTube on the subject of extermination, crusades, and jihadism with the participation of the Mahdi, i.d the messianic liberator, who is to appear before the Judgment Day and free the world from evil. This is compounded by the deterioration of sentiment among young people in Muslim countries and Muslim minorities in Europe. Due to the closure of mosques, there is growing interest in Islamic educational websites dominated by the radical Salafi movement, which popularize the thesis that the coronavirus is a divine punishment for harm suffered by Muslims. The coronavirus has not reduced the scale of the terrorist threat in Europe, despite the calls of the Islamic State not to travel to the Old Continent. After all, there are supporters of the overthrown caliphate and former militiants in the EU who have returned to their countries of residence. Those who remained in the Middle East have been dormant for a long time. The process of their activation is underway. There is an increase in the power of propaganda message addressed to Europeans. The media agency ‘Amaq’ and the electronic weekly magazine ‘Al-Naba’ (‘Report’) play a special role in these activities. The Islamic State is trying to show itself as an international structure through disinformation activities on social media and thus strengthen its message to potential recruits. In many regions of the world, The Islamic State has the strength and means to conduct guerrilla warfare and terrorist activities, primarily in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia and Africa. It uses regional destabilization and local extremist organizations for further attacks. One can speak of an increase in terrorist activity but it is not as large as a year ago, although there are regions where their activities are very intense, for example in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Mozambique. COVID-19 threatens international solidarity and cooperation, which is key to the fight against terrorist organizations in the Sahel zone, where local forces and their international partners are trying to stop jihadists. The highly mobile operations of terrorist organizations on the border of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso and around Lake Chad require a joint effort of these countries with the support of France, the United States and other countries, although this involvement is not always subordinated to a common strategy. The pandemic can make a local terrorist group even more dangerous because it further absorbs and weakens local governments and armed forces. In the event of a breakdown of cooperation between the countries in the region struggling with the public health crisis, or the withdrawal of foreign allies, the consequences may be extremely dangerous for the security of the Sahel states.
- Źródło:
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Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego; 2020, 12, 23; 13-47
2080-1335
2720-0841 - Pojawia się w:
- Przegląd Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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