‘Violent Extremism and Remedies’: Dealing with terrorism in Europe
Violent extremism in Europe remains the focus of attention of
most Western circles and international research centers due to the spillover of
its effects on the Middle East and countries in the Arab world.
In his book “Europe: Violent Extremism and Remedies”,
researcher Jassim Mohamad, director of the European Center for Counterterrorism
and Intelligence Studies, completes a study on terrorism in Europe. The book
addresses extremist groups in Europe by size and ideological formation, looking
at the activities of extremist groups and their most prominent leaders.
The book also examines the attitudes of European countries
and the preventive measures they are taking against the threats coming from
extremist groups regionally and internationally. It also deals in detail with
the dilemma of foreign fighters and the attitudes of Europe regarding their
return, with the author describing Europe’s stances of legal and moral
abandonment, as well as the duality of its policies to combat terrorism and
extremism.
The book recommends the necessity of recovering foreign
fighters from Syria and Iraq in order to avoid recycling ISIS elements into
other extremist organizations and pushing their families and children towards
delinquency and extremism.
The book, at almost 600 pages, was not satisfied with just
presenting a map and the incubators of extremism within Europe. Rather, it
reviews the policies of international intelligence services in combating
extremism, with a critical review of those policies and their success or
failure.
The importance of the book lies in its approach to dealing
with extremism and terrorism from an inside European view, relying on reliable
and credible international sources.
