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Why the Taliban embrace jihad
Mona Kanwal Sheikh on her impressions from meeting militants
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Militants such as members of the Pakistani Taliban can be in the very same movement for different reasons, challenging approaches that are either looking for purely religious, political og socio-economic explanations of why terrorists become terrorists, Senior Researcher Mona Kanwal Sheikh writes in this contribution to the OUPblog.
The blog post is based on Sheikh's newly released book "Guardian of God - Inside the Religious Mind of the Pakistani Taliban" in which she interviews pakistani Taliban adherents and symphatizers.
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Different faces of Taliban Jihad