Generation Jihad: Scholar of Islam predicts civil war across Europe as more young Muslims facing poor job prospects turn to radical groups
- Gilles Kepel from Science Po in Paris warns of the effects of radicalisation
- Fears terrorists could destabilise Europe to the point of starting civil wars
- Comes as French Prime Minister warns terror plots are being foiled 'daily'
A
scholar of Islam has warned of civil war across Europe as more young
Muslims facing poor job prospects turn to radical groups, it has been
reported.
Professor
Gilles Kepel, from the Sciences Po in Paris, France, said a growing
'Jihad Generation' is likely to continue to carry out terror acts in
European cities.
The
aim of their terror activity is to both incite hatred towards Muslims
and, in doing so, cause further radicalisation among young people, the
professor of political science said.
A scholar of Islam has predicted civil
war across Europe as more young Muslims facing poor job prospects turn
to radical groups, it has been reported (file picture)
He told the German newspaper Die Welt that this in turn could lead to the point where Europe enters into civil war.
Kepel
said the recent terror attacks across the continent were part of a war
within Islam rather than between Islam and Western civilization.
The extremists, he said, also want to crush more moderate Islamic opposition.
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After
civil war had ruined Europe, he said, the long term goal of the
terrorists would then be to build a caliphate 'on the ruins of the old
continent'.
Kepel
said that while most Muslims were not involved in any terror-related
activity, a lack of job prospects and their feeling of hopelessness in
French suburbs could boost the likelihood of young Muslims becoming
radicalised.
He
warned against retaliation from far-right groups and urged authorities
to eliminate fractures in European societies 'not with war but with
policing and education'.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls
said that 'every day attacks are foiled ... (including) as we speak'
(file picture of French anti-terror police)
His comments come with Europe still on edge following a wave of terror attacks in recent months.
Last night, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that 'every day attacks are foiled ... (including) as we speak.'
Valls
said nearly 15,000 people in France are being tracked because they are
suspected of being in the process of radicalization, while 1,350 are
under investigation - 293 of them for alleged links with a terrorism
network.
'Today
the threat is at a maximum, and we are a target,' Valls said on Europe 1
radio. 'Every day intelligence services, police foil attacks, dismantle
networks, track terrorists.'
Despite
the tracking, with plots uncovered, 'There will be new attacks. There
will be innocent victims,' the prime minister said.
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