Felipe Pathé Duarte, PhD · 5/1/2018  · ©Felipe Pathé Duarte. Al Zawahiri wrote “Knights...

Felipe Pathé Duarte, PhD

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Global Jihadism– Global Insurgency Strategy

IntermediateObjectives

General Objectives

•Change the current international order •Governance by Shariah •Transformation of Muslim society

•Withdrawal of Western forces from the holy places •Extension of the struggle to secular governments in the region •Humiliation of Western forces•Four steps (Zawahiri’s letter – 2005)

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Al Zawahiri wrote “Knights under the Prophet’s Banner”, July 2001

•Territorial control

•Universalization of the Battle

•Union of all the jihadist movements

•Specification of the enemy - more than guerrilla attacks in Muslim

countries, attack the West

•Provocation in enemy territory

•Preparation for a long and painful war (against Crusades)

•Ideological purity and loyalty to the principles and not the leaders

•Mass mobilization - propaganda and dawah

•Intensification of the fight - inflicting more casualties

•New forms of attack (martyrdom, low-level attacks and individual

actions)

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Jihad against Jews and

Crusaders

The West outside the

Muslim world

Jihad against apostate

regimes(takfir)

Model Islamic State (Sharia)

Unite the muslim community in a cause(Ummah)

Ummah united

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Source: Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project

Source: The Soufan Group

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