Radical-Jihadist Islam

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In the last decade the growing winds of Jihad has swept with them thousands of radicalized fighters recruited from around the world, including Europe and the United States, and who have traveled to Iraq and Syria to join the ranks of ISIS and Al-Qaeda, as well as making their way into other similar Islamist radicalized groups such as Ansar Al-Sharia in regions like Libya, Yemen and region of Africa, in which the west, its values and way of life, is targeted in support of extreme Islamist ideology, later returning to their homelands.
This has marks another starting point in the Radical-Jihadist Islam as it is now declared War on the whole world.

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