Morocco´s Foreign Fighters: Jihadists´ 2nd Generation and its Islamist Ideology Cover Image

Fenomén marockých „foreign fighters“: druhá generace džihádistů a její islamistická ideologie
Morocco´s Foreign Fighters: Jihadists´ 2nd Generation and its Islamist Ideology

Author(s): Jana Kostrounová
Subject(s): Security and defense, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Univerzita obrany - Centrum bezpečnostních a vojenskostrategických studií
Keywords: Morocco; Foreign Fighters; Radicalization; Daech; Syria; Radical Islamism; Islamic Extremism

Summary/Abstract: There is currently about 1 500 Moroccan citizens fighting for the socalledDaech in Syria and Iraq; that makes the North African monarchyone of the main countries which export radical islam djihadists andsupporters abroad to the war-beaten Syrian-Iraqi region. Until 2014 Moroccan officials let them leave the country almost freely. But it seem snow that the situation has rapidly changed: the Kingdom of Moroccois currently fighting and closely monitoring its own foreign fighters whoare coming back home.

  • Issue Year: 25/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 82-90
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech