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Why Algeria Isn’t Exporting Jihadists

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Why Algeria Isn’t Exporting Jihadists

Very few Algerians, a country which is almost 100% Muslim, are fighting as foreign jihadists, the article states the following three reasons:

1) The country is still traumatized by the civil war in the 90s, they witnessed what Islamist terrorism can do to their community.
2) Tight government control over the religious discourse by employing religious scholars and keeping a close eye on mosques.
3) A tight, merciless security mechanism. This includes a military which has a lot of experience with combatting terrorists.

Algeria is far from being a liberal democracy but their way of suppressing radicalism seems to help.
 
Olive said:
Why Algeria Isn’t Exporting Jihadists

Very few Algerians, a country which is almost 100% Muslim, are fighting as foreign jihadists, the article states the following three reasons:

1) The country is still traumatized by the civil war in the 90s, they witnessed what Islamist terrorism can do to their community.
2) Tight government control over the religious discourse by employing religious scholars and keeping a close eye on mosques.
3) A tight, merciless security mechanism. This includes a military which has a lot of experience with combatting terrorists.

Algeria is far from being a liberal democracy but their way of suppressing radicalism seems to help.
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no Libyan spillover into Algeria? You might be interested in this - I had it very extensive but the old site crashed.
I at leaststill have some decent documentation ..please take a look if you are interested.
This is the current civil war, not the one in 2011 when Qadaffi was assassinated - though of course you will see references to that

Libyan Civil War 2014 - Present | Dcjunkies
 
Olive said:
Why Algeria Isn’t Exporting Jihadists

Very few Algerians, a country which is almost 100% Muslim, are fighting as foreign jihadists, the article states the following three reasons:

1) The country is still traumatized by the civil war in the 90s, they witnessed what Islamist terrorism can do to their community.
2) Tight government control over the religious discourse by employing religious scholars and keeping a close eye on mosques.
3) A tight, merciless security mechanism. This includes a military which has a lot of experience with combatting terrorists.

Algeria is far from being a liberal democracy but their way of suppressing radicalism seems to help.
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Those are good reasons but another enormous reason that seems to go unmentioned by the article is the fact that Algeria is already the site of an extant Islamist insurgency. It has shrunk dramatically but it remains relatively dogged with major operations and sweeps by the Algerian military continuing to result in gun battles, deaths, and retaliatory bombings. It seems logical that a likely recruit for Islamist militants would join one of the several currently operating within Algeria and the wider Maghreb than travel to Syria or some other battlefield.
 
Sherman123 said:
Those are good reasons but another enormous reason that seems to go unmentioned by the article is the fact that Algeria is already the site of an extant Islamist insurgency. It has shrunk dramatically but it remains relatively dogged with major operations and sweeps by the Algerian military continuing to result in gun battles, deaths, and retaliatory bombings. It seems logical that a likely recruit for Islamist militants would join one of the several currently operating within Algeria and the wider Maghreb than travel to Syria or some other battlefield.
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Just wanted to say I live in Algeria and apart from the Tiguentourine scene, there weren't any significant terrorist operations in Algeria so the reason you mentioned isn't actually true.
 
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