The Rise of “Neo-Jihad”: How Washington Is Engineering a New Breed of Islamists

The U.S. is actively constructing a new category of Islamist actor: a hybrid movement that is Salafi-jihadist in religious identity and military function, and Muslim Brotherhood in its political posture. It is a deliberately engineered creature, part warrior and ideologue, and part bureaucrat, packaged as a pragmatic alternative to both ISIS and Iran.

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