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updated: May 14 2021, 02:09 ist
In a bomb attack on May 6, former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed was critically injured, as were a few others. Going by the magnitude, the attack looks small, but in terms of the target selected, it cannot be underestimated. The fact that the attackers could get close to a high-profile target like Nasheed, who is also currently Speaker of the People’s Majlis, the Maldivian parliament, raises two principal questions: Is there a larger jihadist context to the attack? Or was it an attack by his political opponents?
Over the past decade or so, Islamic radicalisation has reared its head in this Sunni-majority state. The number of Maldivians drawn to Islamic State (IS) and Pakistan-based madrasas and jihadist groups has risen. Protests by Islamists bearing IS flags have become common on the islands. According to a Government of Maldives report, about 200 Maldivian citizens had travelled to Syria and fought alongside IS; double that number did try t
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