Does the Jihadist Threat Still Exist?
22nd June 2023
The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
Has the jihadist threat simply become run-of-the-mill? Or has it just disappeared?
You might think either of these to be the case, given how little the media, and particularly the U.S. media, seems to make of them anymore. Arrests of terror cells, the disruptions of plans of attack, shootings and stabbings, particularly in Europe, all go little reported — and are frequently entirely ignored these days by the U.S. press.
But that doesn’t mean they aren’t happening, or that the threat is anywhere near over. As Christine Abizaid, director of the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington, DC, told the Washington Institute in January, “Despite significant progress in diminishing the terrorist threat to the United States, the country continues to face a diversified, transnational, and in many ways unpredictable threat environment both at home and abroad.” And a recent Dutch intelligence overviewof the jihadist threat in Europe and the West cautions, “there are more and more signals that jihadist groups are making preparations for terrorist attacks in Europe.”
Wherever you go,
Whatever you do,
A Muslim waits there
To try to kill you.