Rakhine State – Southeast Asia’s Next Marawi?
Myanmar’s political crisis has created the conditions for a possible widening of the jihadi theater in Southeast Asia.
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April 15, 2021
In this June 29, 2018, file photo, a Myanmar border guard stands to provide security near a fence at a no-man’s land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar.
Credit: AP Photo/Min Kyi Thein, File
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What has distinguished jihadist groups and their appeal from other anti-state non-state actors has been their ability to construct a paradigm and narrative that the “land” in which a struggle is taking place is the “Land of Allah” and, hence, that jihadists need to join them in the struggle for the cause of Allah and Islam. This was what drew thousands of jihadists to Afghanistan in the 1980s, to Iraq and Syria from 2003 to 2018, and in the Southeast Asian region, to Marawi in the Phili
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