Jihadi-Salafi terrorism and violent extremism in the era of al-Qaeda and the Islamic state

© 2018 selection and editorial matter, Jane L. Ireland, Philip Birch and Carol A. Ireland; individual chapters, the contributors. This chapter seeks to place modern terrorism in an historical context in order to properly understand the nature and magnitude of the threat. In particular, it examines the exaggerated, but insidiously resilient, threats posed by Jihadi-Salafism and the forms of right-wing extremism that it resonates with.