Al-Qaeda §

• Al-Qaeda was founded on the belief that it must establish strict Sharia Law ¹
• They use the internet as a channel for propaganda to recruit more members
• There are two main differences between traditionally Terrorism group and Al-Qaeda:
  • Traditional terrorist group wanted a lot of people watching
  • Al-Qaeda wanted a lot of people watching and a lot of people dead

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Footnotes §

1. Chapter 11 of RHOSS-Routledge handbook of security studies-Routledge (2017) ↩