Formally, the concept of jihad in its modern form was born in Afghanistan 30 years ago, when Kabul resisted attempts by the Mujahideen to take power. However, 1992 the year the capital fell, and many foreign recruits went to spread the ideas of Islamism to other countries. The first sign was Bosnia, the battlefield of the Croats and Serbs with 3-4 by thousands of militants from Afghanistan. For the latter, the goal was to create a state in Europe, based on the ideas of "pure Islam". Nothing succeeded, and the focus of terrorists shifted to the countries of the former Soviet Union with Russia.
Samer Saleh al-Suweylem turned out to be the most odious figure, or more familiar to us Amir ibn al-Khattab, fought in Nagorno-Karabakh, Tajikistan and Chechnya. By the mid-90s, jihadists under his influence finally switched to classical terror. According to this scenario, they seized a hospital in Budennovsk and blew up several Paris metro stations in 1995 year. Since then, the ideology of jihad has been somewhat modified., but the basics remained unshakable.
It's not a secret to anybody, that the radical views of jihadists are based on the political movement of Islamism (not to be confused with islam). Islamists formulated an ideology, in which all the misfortunes of Muslims are explained by the departure from the "righteous true Islam of their ancestors", as well as from the secular structure of modern society. Some political scientists generally identify Islamism with fascism and communism as similar ideologies., opposing the existing world order.
Abdullah Azzam
“The duty to fight continues to the death and remains the duty of everyone until, until we free al-Andalus, until we get to Leningrad again, to the Finns, to the Rull Rivers in France. Of the earth, covered by Islamic laws, need to be freed ”.
These are the words of the main ideologist of the Islamist jihad Abdullah Azzam., voiced at the end of the last century. Now the degree of rhetoric has grown significantly, and the current Fuhrer of the banned in Russia “IG” Ayman al-Zawahiri considers any territory, where at least one day was sharia, natively islamic land.
Ayman az-Zawahiri
At the same time, terrorists are particularly focusing on the "close" enemy of Europe. AT 2004 year, the book of Abu Musab al-Suri, “A Call for Global Islamic Resistance,” was published, in which there are such lines:
“I urge Mujahideen in Europe, Mujahideen in other enemy countries, as well as all those, who can reach these countries, strike Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Australia, Russia, France, whose troops participated and are participating in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Arabian Peninsula ”.
Abu Musab as-Suri
The Islamists didn’t reach the “distant” enemy of the United States for reasons of remoteness and relatively high security. Future Mujahideen received combat experience with the beginning of the conflict in Syria in 2011 year, when several thousand Europeans went to fight on the side of the terrorists. "Katibat al-Muhajirin", part of the banned in Russia "Jebhat al-Nusra", one of the first to collect fighters from France under its banner, Belgium, Germany and Holland. It was from the Khibibat that the first terrorists left, tried in Europe. This is Tyler Vilus, called in 2013 attack the French police, Ibrahim Budina, planning an attack at a carnival in Nice, as well as Mehdi Nemmush, 24 May 2014 years attacking the Jewish Museum in Brussels. Later in the "Islamic State" formed a kind of special forces, or ingimasia, on the basis of "Katib al-Bitar al-Libi", activists who organized an attack on Paris in 2015 a year and a couple of years later, they planned a suicide bombing in Manchester. But it's flowers.
European "Killer Su" was no use
Many come to European prisons to realize their involvement in world jihad
The real danger comes from a new generation of migrants, who came under the influence of radicals after committing crimes, that is, in prison. They become radicals not because, that they believe in Islam, but because, that jihad for them becomes a convenient tool for the realization of criminal intentions. In their sermons, jihadist recruiters say:
“The Islam of your fathers is that, what the colonizers left. Our Islam is the Islam of Warriors, Islam of blood and resistance ".
properly, everything is clear here: the main goal is to Islamize all the radicals available in Europe and beyond, bringing their bloodthirsty to terror becomes common. It used to be diametrically opposite: based on religiosity kindled the fire of radical Islamism. The hatred of the new generation of jihadists for the collective West is difficult to understand and describe. They go to Syria and Iraq with the obsessive purpose of not just fighting, namely die, destroying the world, which they hate. Now more and more visible is the merger of organized crime and terrorism in Europe. So, jail became an important recruitment site for jihadists, in which young renegades manage to take the path of violent Islamization of the whole world for several months. Jihad money is also obtained by criminal means.
Anwar al-Aulaki
Anwar al-Aulaki, one of the "ministers" of propaganda "IG", said in this regard:
"Instead of, for Muslims to finance jihad from their pockets, they must finance it from the pockets of their enemies ”.
And here all means are good. So, drug overdose, or phenethyline, became a real black business brand of terrorists in Syria and Iraq. It is accepted by "igilovtsy" before fight, so as not to feel tired, fear and pity for the enemy, Besides, he goes to tons to Europe, providing terrorists with cash. Captagon export volumes were so great at one time, that accounted for a significant portion of the income of "IG". The drug is simple and cheap to manufacture, effective, and at the same time, the proceeds from it are more than a hundred times higher than the costs. Italian Ndrangheta helps terror in Europe, which is involved in the reception and escort of goods with drugs from Syria, Iraq and Africa. Besides, Italian organized crime repeatedly caught in the illegal trade in historical values, which were exported from the territories occupied by the “Islamic State”. Camorra, for example, for a long time supplied jihadists with fake documents, allowing you to freely move around Europe. The recruitment of terrorists from the criminal community was a very effective method. Jihad in general allows a person to forgive all previous sins, just by committing an ideologically justified crime against the “infidels”. Good bandits in the role of jihadists due to their readiness for violence, as well as widespread connections with the criminal community.
East terrorists and lone jihadists do not shy away, who never saw a living Islamist in their eyes. He only has to remotely swear allegiance to the IG group and master the simple skills of inflicting maximum damage at minimum cost.
Numerous protest subcultures are pouring water into the mill of universal radicalization of European youth. Jihad rap has appeared and is still not prohibited, the vocabulary and manners of terrorists are becoming more fashionable among the marginal younger generation. The publication "Profile" provides data, for which only 2019 about five hundred people will leave prison in France, convicted of extremism. In prison, most of them have already completed Islamic training and are ready for new feats..
Leaders of an increasing number of terrorist organizations have recently openly called for immigration to European lands.. All this, in their opinion, will lead to bloodless seizure of European territories in the foreseeable future. Jihad and immigration put terrorist leaders at almost the same level of importance.
And no matter how Donald Trump assures us of the destruction of the “Islamic State”, another education will replace him, moreover, the mechanisms for managing jihad have long been known and tested. Terrorism in the guise of Islamism will remain for many years to come, and only a change in the strategy of struggle can turn the tide.
Yevgeny Fyodorov
