| Summary/Abstract |
THE UNINTERRUPTED ESCALATION of the threat of international terrorism; its expansion under the banner of so-called "political Islam" on the territories of the Near East and North Africa, and of South and Southeast Asia; and its penetration into Europe and Central Asia have shown that the core of the radicalization of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people, and of their involvement in the cruelest and most violent of crimes on the greatest of scales, is primarily the terrorist ideology - an overarching, universal, all-encompassing, and extremely effective, inexpensive, and accessible instrument of mobilization, recruiting terrorists, planning terrorist attacks, undermining public safety and political security, destabilizing governments and law and order, and furthering terrorist aims.
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