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Bangladesh

Bashar, Iftekharul

Bangladesh / [Recurso electrónico] PDF .-- : International Center for Policital Violence and Terrorism Research , 2016

In 2015, Bangladesh witnessed a spate of attacks by Islamist militants, targeting, in particular, prominent bloggers known for their vehement criticisms of religious extremism. Though the government has largely been able to contain most of the traditional militant groups, new groups or a hybrid of old and the new, inspired by the ideology of Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) or Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), are gaining a slow but steady foothold in the country by manipulating the social media to radicalise and recruit followers, threaten enemies and rally individuals to violence in the name of jihad.

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