Violent Islamist strategy still a failure and ultimately a dead end

Even with the help of Western invasions and the War on Terror, the Islamists have been unable to convince enough Arabs that they are the right solution to the Arab world’s problems.

Osama bin Laden, pictured in 1997, the founder of al-Qaeda, was responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the United States. The notion that the Taliban take-over in Afghanistan will lead to a huge new wave of Islamist terrorism is absurd, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 25, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Violent Islamist movements, as current events in Afghanistan demonstrate, have had some success in Muslim countries that have been invaded by the United States. But they have ...

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