Le Monde | • Updated | Interview by
The political scientist Gilles Kepel, a specialist in Middle East and the Islam in France, author of Terror in France. Genesis of the French jihad (Gallimard), analyzes the evolution of French jihadist movements over the last ten years.
that jihad was long claimed was imported La France. You prefer to speak with a French jihad. What characterizes it?
In the decade 2005-2015, a French born in France jihad, without anyone noticing until the case Merah [seven people murdered in March 2012, in Toulouse and Montauban], which many believed it was an isolated act. What happens in 2005, it is the conjunction of two phenomena: on one hand, the emergence of the third generation of global jihadism, with the publication on the Internet, the book of Abu Musab al-Suri Call for Global Islamic Resistance , the other suburban riots in France, which will give birth to the third generation of Islam in France. A priori the two phenomena are not related, but wait …
The first generation of jihad will Afghanistan in 1979, where the mujahideen drove the Red Army in Algeria in 1997, where Jihadists fail because they have tackled stronger than them and that the use of hyperviolence the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) prepare the population against him. The second generation, that of Bin Laden, considers it necessary to move from the near enemy to the far enemy, the West: it is September 11, 2001, operation …
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