By Brenda Gazzar
Radical Islam, the kind in evidence in the Mumbai attacks last month, will not be defeated unless it is confronted at the ideological level, an expert and former member of the terrorist organization Jamaa Islamiya told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
"I believe that we should learn from the Mumbai attacks a lesson that we should have no mercy when it comes to terrorism and the ideology behind it," said Tawfik Hamid, an expert on Islamism and counter-terrorism, before speaking at a global terrorism and counterinsurgency conference in Tel Aviv.
"These people are just the product of an ideology. As the civilized world, we should not wait for catastrophes to happen," he said.
In addition to a small number of actual terrorists, there is also a large number of people who sympathize or condone terrorism, evidenced by the lack of demonstrations or even religious fatwas in the Islamic world against terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, Hamid said during Monday's conference, which was organized by the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Jerusalem-based Shalem Center.
The Egyptian-born Hamid was once a disciple of Aiman Al-Zawahiri - currently al-Qaida's No. 2 - and is the author of Inside Jihad: Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam. Read more ...
Radical Islam, the kind in evidence in the Mumbai attacks last month, will not be defeated unless it is confronted at the ideological level, an expert and former member of the terrorist organization Jamaa Islamiya told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
"I believe that we should learn from the Mumbai attacks a lesson that we should have no mercy when it comes to terrorism and the ideology behind it," said Tawfik Hamid, an expert on Islamism and counter-terrorism, before speaking at a global terrorism and counterinsurgency conference in Tel Aviv.
"These people are just the product of an ideology. As the civilized world, we should not wait for catastrophes to happen," he said.
In addition to a small number of actual terrorists, there is also a large number of people who sympathize or condone terrorism, evidenced by the lack of demonstrations or even religious fatwas in the Islamic world against terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, Hamid said during Monday's conference, which was organized by the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Jerusalem-based Shalem Center.
The Egyptian-born Hamid was once a disciple of Aiman Al-Zawahiri - currently al-Qaida's No. 2 - and is the author of Inside Jihad: Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam. Read more ...
Source: Jerusalem Post
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