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Articles by Jytte Klausen
Egypt Fans the Flames
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions The storming of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Tuesday echoed events following the 2005 Danish publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that led to widespread protest in 2006 and assaults on Danish embassies around the world.
A Review of "The Golden Horde" edited by Nanni Balestrini and Primo Moroni
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Get a link Request Reprint Permissions Edited by Nanni Balestrini and Primo Moroni; translated by Richard Braude In This Review In This Review The Golden Horde: Revolutionary Italy, 1960–1977 Edited by Nanni Balestrini and Primo Moroni; translated by Richard Braude Purchase Developed countries witnessed far more radical politics and more political violence in the 1960s and 1970s than they do today.
Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe
Jytte Klausen Abstract The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists. They are also all Muslims, who have decided to become engaged in political and civic organisations. And for that reason, they constantly have to explain themselves, mostly in order to say who they are not.
Should Western ISIS Fighters Be Allowed Home?
Ali Hashisho / REUTERS Snapshot Jun 6, 2019 Terrorism & Counterterrorism Europe Thousands of Westerners Joined ISIS. Should They Be Allowed to Return? When Westerners arrived in the caliphate, they would burn their passports, ceremonially rejecting their national identity, and brag of the act on Twitter.
Should Western ISIS Fighters Be Allowed Home?
Ali Hashisho / REUTERS Snapshot Jun 6, 2019 Terrorism & Counterterrorism Europe Thousands of Westerners Joined ISIS. Should They Be Allowed Home? When Westerners arrived in the caliphate, they would burn their passports, ceremonially rejecting their national identity, and brag of the act on Twitter.
Why Jihadist Terrorism Has Declined in Europe
On Tuesday, December 11, just before 8 PM, a lone attacker, Cherif Chekatt, armed with a handgun and a knife, killed five people and injured a dozen others who were visiting the famous Christmas market in front of the Strasbourg Cathedral. Chekatt was wounded in an exchange of fire with counterterrorism forces but initially escaped. Two days later, a patrol spotted him on a street close to where he grew up, a few miles away from the Cathedral, and shot him dead.
France on Fire
Early on January 7, masked gunmen stormed the editorial office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people. The death toll may still rise. The attack coincided with an editorial meeting at the paper, with key staffers assembled. According to eyewitness reports, the perpetrators forced their way into a back office, calling out the names of the editor and cartoonists before shooting them. The assassins, presumed to be al Qaeda members, escaped.
British Intelligence Fails Again
Following the third terror attack in the United Kingdom in two-and-a-half months, on Sunday British Prime Minister Theresa May went before the cameras to declare that “enough is enough” and outline a new round of anti-terrorism legislation. She pinned the blame for Britain’s vulnerability to terrorism on excessive toleration of extremist ideology—citing the “safe spaces” that exist online, and in British society generally, protecting the open expression of Islamist extremism.
Why the London Attacker Was No Lone Wolf
The terrorist attack near the British Parliament on Wednesday, in which a man rammed a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge in London, parallels last year’s incidents in Berlin and in Nice where large vehicles were also used to kill crowds of people. In the aftermath of these events, the attackers have been widely called “lone wolves." This is a myth that must be dispelled. Lone actors they were, but only on the day of the attack.
Anti-Semitism and Terrorism
Last week, Londoners elected Sadiq Khan, a human rights lawyer and a former member of Parliament for the Labour Party, as their first Muslim mayor. Khan was predicted to win, but in the last minute an ugly row over anti-Semitism in the party ranks threatened to derail his election and forced Khan to denounce Ken Livingstone, a former London mayor who is stalwart of the Left.
ISIS' European Cells and Lone Wolves
The attack in Brussels may have been shocking, but it was hardly surprising that Europe was subject to a coordinated terrorist campaign directed by the Islamic State (ISIS). As European officials reported in the days after the strike, ISIS had previously dispatched “at least 400 fighters to target Europe.” These terrorists, mostly of European origin, were instructed to construct “interlocking terror cells,” officials say, and were given autonomy to choose their target, timing, and methods.
Europe's Real Border Problem
It takes three hours to drive from Sint-Jans-Molenbeek in Brussels to Place de la République, a historic square in Paris. On Friday, November 13, three cars did just that. They were loaded with machine guns, ammunition, suicide vests, and three teams of trained guerillas from the Islamic State (also called ISIS). By midnight, the men from Molenbeek had killed 132 people and injured 350, setting a terrible new record for terrorist attacks perpetuated by European jihadists against their homeland.
The Battle From Algiers
“If you can kill an American or European infidel, especially the spiteful and cursed French,” said Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), last September, “kill them in any way possible.” In stating a clear preference for terrorist attacks in France, Adnani became part of a proud terrorist tradition. Last week’s atrocities in Paris, which left 17 dead, were not the first rounds of terror brought to France by Islamists.
The Charlie Hebdo Attack and the Future of al Qaeda
Early on January 7, masked gunmen stormed the editorial office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people. The death toll may still rise. The attack coincided with an editorial meeting at the paper, with key staffers assembled. According to eyewitness reports, the perpetrators forced their way into a back office, calling out the names of the editor and cartoonists before shooting them. The assassins, presumed to be al Qaeda members, escaped.
Freedom of Speech Is No Use If We Fold
Jytte Klausen is a scholar of politics who teaches at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. She is the author of The Cartoons that Shook the World (Yale University Press, 2009). Editors and producers across the Western world will now be asking themselves: “Can I print this?” They are asking the wrong question.
Tweeting the Jihad: Social Media Networks of Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq
Social media have played an essential role in the jihadists’ operational strategy in Syria and Iraq, and beyond. Twitter in particular has been used to drive communications over other social media platforms. Twitter streams from the insurgency may give the illusion of authenticity, as a spontaneous activity of a generation accustomed to using their cell phones for self-publication, but to what extent is access and content controlled?
Louise Shelley | How ISIS Makes Its Money | Foreign Affairs
A key element of U.S. President Barack Obama’s strategy against the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) has been striking at the oil fields seized by the group to undermine its finances. But ISIS is a diversified criminal business, and oil is only one of its several revenue streams. U.S. officials ignore that fact at their own peril. It is true that oil is ISIS’ key source of funding right now.
The Cartoons That Shook the World
On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, having invited 42 Danish cartoonists to draw the Prophet Muhammad “as they see him,” published the 12 cartoons submitted. Danish Muslims (who compose four percent of Denmark’s population) protested, Muslim governments intervened diplomatically, Muslims boycotted Danish products, the cartoonists received death threats, and mobs sacked Danish embassies around the Middle East.
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