Terrorism is a subject of interest like many others but what does the academic study of it really tell us? Not a lot from a practical standpoint.
Category: Perspectives
Despite our Western-centric views on terrorism, it is an unavoidable fact that the vast majority of casualties from Muslim terrorists are other Muslims.
We in the West take editorial cartoons and lampooning for granted: terrorists don’t.
On January 1, 2016 more than 300 West African migrants, including Gambians, Senegalese and Nigerians, were massacred by ISIS in Libya.
On previous New Year’s Eve, terrorist attacks have indeed been carried out. Here is a sample.
CSIS rarely says a lot openly about what it knows: when it does it should be listened to.
On this day in 1993, three Azanian People’s Liberation Army operatives entered the Heidelberg Tavern and opened fire on the crowd, killing four students.
As good as some law enforcement and security intelligence agencies are, some terrorist incidents are never resolved.
Recent reports that deaths from terrorism are significantly down do not seem to apply to Africa.
The choice for today’s terrorist attack was a no-brainer: when was the last time you heard of a blunderbuss used to kill someone?