TY  - SER
AU  - Roul, Animesh
TI  - Spreading Tentacles: : the Islamic State in Bangladesh
KW  - Estado Islámico
KW  - Terrorismo
KW  - Bangladesh
N2  - Growing evidence suggests that the influence of the Islamic State organization has reached the South Asian, Muslim- majority country of Bangladesh. The country has long been home to small, but significant, numbers of radicals from both local militant groups, such as the Jama’at ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), the country’s most significant local jihadist group, and those linked to transnational jihadist formations, such as al-Qaeda. However, the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate and the promise of it’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to return to all Muslims their “dignity, might, rights and leadership” seem to have infused a renewed Islamist fervor within a section of Bangladeshi youths and among existing radical elements
UR  - http://www.jamestown.org/uploads/media/TerrorismMonitorVol13Issue3.pdf
ER  -