Who are the new jihadis? - An Insightful analysis by Olivier Roy

Who are the new jihadis?
Biographies of �homegrown� European terrorists show they are violent nihilists who adopt Islam, rather than religious fundamentalists who turn to violence
by Olivier Roy




There is something new about the jihadi terrorist violence of the past two decades. Both terrorism and jihad have existed for many years, and forms of �globalised� terror � in which highly symbolic