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<\/a><\/p>\nJessica Stern<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Research Professor at the <\/span>Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University,<\/a>\u00a0said another attack by ISIS on the West in the wake of the Brussels terror attacks is likely.<\/p>\n Stern made the argument in a March 23, 2016 Op-Ed for the\u00a0Boston Globe<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>entitled “ISIS targets \u2018gray zone\u2019 of moderate Islam.<\/a>”<\/p>\n From the text of the article:<\/p>\n ISIS aims to appeal, in its own words, to the people \u201cdrowning in oceans of disgrace, being nursed on the milk of humiliation, and being ruled by the vilest of all people.\u201d It claims to offer disenfranchised youth \u2014 who see no way to live with honor in the West \u2014 a chance to reinvent themselves as heroes in someone else\u2019s violent dystopian dream.<\/span><\/p>\n Some of them will carry out their jihad in the West. Belgian authorities say they don\u2019t have enough manpower to surveil suspected terrorists, and that one of the attackers is still at large.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Jessica Stern\u2019s main focus is on perpetrators of violence and the possible connections between trauma and terror.\u00a0 She has written on terrorist groups across religions and ideologies, among them neo-Nazis, Islamists, anarchists, and white supremacists.\u00a0 She has also written about counter-radicalization programs for both neo-Nazi and Islamist terrorists.\u00a0 She has been working with a team at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital on the risk factors for violence among Somali-refugee youth.\u00a0 She is\u00a0currently working on a study of Radovan Karadzic, indicted for war crimes in Bosnia. <\/span>Read more about her here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prof. Jessica Stern said ISIS’s goal is to eliminate the “Gray Zone” of moderate Muslims in the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9287,9336,8569,9334,8859,8625,9059,9349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21923,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21919\/revisions\/21923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}