Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, Victoria University, Australia. He recently completed his PhD on the relationship between factors of existential anxiety and support for extremism and violent extremism in Indonesia. He has a special interest in political, social, and mental health issues with a particular focus on Indonesia.
This perspective analyses potential SADC interventions and private military companies to combat Islamic State terrorism in Mozambique.
Since the end of 2016, Britain and the US have taken unprecedented steps to proscribe post-war radical right groups; National Action, Sonnenkrieg Division, and Feuerkrieg Division by the former, and the Russian Imperial Movement by the latter. While these groups are serial purveyors of online extremism and often celebrate terrorism in their fora, deeper similarities […]
July 22, 2021 marks the 10-year anniversary of Anders Behring Breivik’s lone actor attack on Oslo. The intervening decade has seen a wave of far-right violence targeting Western cities, many inspired by the Norwegian terrorist. The anniversary accordingly offers an important opportunity to revisit counter-terrorism lessons learned, and to assess whether they have been sufficiently […]