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August 13, 2015

Why Isn’t Algeria Exporting Jihad—Yet?

Answer: religious quietism, draconian security, and the trauma of civil war.

As Muslims from across the globe flock to Syria and Iraq to join Islamic State, very few Algerians have tried to join the fight. Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck attributes this to the prevalence of a quietist school of Islamic fundamentalism, the country’s large, highly coordinated, and sometimes draconian security forces, and the traumatic effect of recent Algerian history:

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