The new methodology of Islamic terrorism

If you want to analyze the Spanish bombing in Barcelona, ​​you can not ignore some of the considerations that might be crucial to preventing new attacks. The authors of the terrorist act, above all, are not components that are not integrated in Spanish society, on the contrary, according to various testimonies, the characteristics of the attackers did not have any substantial similarities with extremists from the disadvantaged French suburbs or the ghetto neighborhoods of Belgium, Where Muslims are confined. They do not come from those areas where the cultivation ground of radicalism seems favorable, for the presence of social exclusion, which often also results in the occurrence of the malady. In Catalonia, these characteristics have not been found, and we have been found, so, in the face of a substantially new phenomenon. What appears is that the propaganda of Islamic terrorism wants to engage new peoples of potential followers by going to seek recruitment of integrated elements in the western societies in which they live. The first advantage would be, as has happened in Spain, to have uncensored and unsustainable elements, thus increasing the difficulty for police forces to make effective prevention; This also results in a greater range of action for new terrorists, who can operate more freely. The second advantage is to engage in potential recruitment within social groups that do not foresee terrorist actions of their members and therefore can not carry out information actions to law enforcement, preserving the preparation of news escalation attacks Community of origin. This strategy mainly plays on the surprise factor and the non-permeability of these cells is a decisive factor. If this is strictly strictly military, it is also true that a very intensive theoretical preparation is required and requires a great deal of work to convince potential terrorists. To do this, it is necessary to work on younger people than non-integrated radicals: in fact, the average age of Barcelona's attackers is lower than any other European assailant (one should not consider the phenomenon of children kamikaze, present, for example , Iraq, but difficult to replicate in Europe). For some observers, the integration of the Catalans, while advanced, would not have been fully accomplished, however, this objection does not appear sufficient to justify the abandonment of legality in favor of terrorism in totally unsuspecting people without a heavy external influence. Indeed, it must be considered that the Imam's facility is capable of inducing terrorists and their freedom of movement within the Muslim Social Group of Catalonia. The underestimation of the work of this religious extremist should be noted both in the social body where he worked and in the police forces who did not properly fit the danger of preaching. However, one can not help but notice the ability of Imam, who has been able to deceive Catalan Muslims, while maintaining a dual attitude. It is understood, however, that this scenario represents a greater and more refined level of the strategy of the Islamic State and, consequently, a greater difficulty in preventing law enforcement work. An additional effect of the Islamic state with this strategy is the deportation of the Muslim community from the terrorists to the rest of the Catalan civil society, breaking a trusting relationship that isolates moderate Muslims from the suspicion of connotations all to prove but Can be perceived by the Spaniards. The Islamic State thus obtains a double result, in addition to the tragic one of the terrorist act: to find newer forces of more diffuse discovery and discredit of the Muslim communities from which they come, creating a dangerous split, which has the sole purpose of isolating moderate Muslims To foster the growth of radicalism within them. This strategy represents the challenge of the caliphate to Europe and the moderate Muslim communities themselves, which must become the protagonists in the fight against terrorism to prevent dangerous dangers within them. For European police, it is about widening the spectrum of preventive vigilance and focus not only on degraded environments, but to begin to monitor effectively all Muslim environments.