@article{Brigadier General AKM Nazmul Hasan, ndc, psc_2017, place={Dhaka, Bangladesh}, title={THREAT OF GLOBAL TERRORISM FOR BANGLADESH: A REALITY OR A MYTH}, volume={16}, url={https://ndcjournal.ndc.gov.bd/ndcj/index.php/ndcj/article/view/213}, abstractNote={<p>In the era of globalization and technological advancement, terrorism has gained<br>multi-dimensional height, where in terrorist think globally, organized regionally<br>but act locally. Online radicalization by social media has made the terrorism more<br>globalized and diversified than ever before. Presently global terrorist outfits<br>like ISIS, AQ and AQIS are trying to influence the Muslim world including<br>Asian Region. They are alluring the young people to join their outfits for so<br>called ‘Jihad’. As a part of the globalized world Bangladesh is not out of the<br>influence of terrorist’s domain. Bangladesh is suffering from terrorist activities<br>since independence. It had the leftist dominated terrorism in the early stages<br>and religion extremism surfaced in the late nineties and thereof. The most<br>dominated terrorist groups like; HuJI-B, JMB, JMJB, HT, ABT and Nabba JMB<br>are active in the country in different magnitude in different phases. Recently<br>terrorist activities and dimension has been changed and they carried out massive<br>operations in Holy Artison Bakery at Gulshan and Eid Congregation at Sholakia,<br>Kishoregonj. They killed two foreigners in 2015 and seventeen foreigners in Holy<br>Artison Bakery on 01 July 2016. These killing were claimed by IS through SITE<br>Intelligence Group. This has given the birth of the doubt about the threat of<br>global terrorism in Bangladesh. In this backdrop the research has been carried to<br>examine whether there exists any real threat of global terrorism on Bangladesh.<br>Bangladesh government has given highest priority and declared ‘Zero Tolerance’<br>policy to address the issue. Lot of domestic, regional, international and bi-lateral<br>cooperation and measures are being taken to curb the terrorism in Bangladesh.<br>With the present efforts, Bangladesh has made remarkable progress in controlling<br>terrorism in the country. Therefore, available data from the research indicates that<br>terrorism has always been an internal affair of Bangladesh and it has hardly any<br>relation with the transnational terrorist outfits. However, Bangladesh being the<br>third Muslim largest country having huge young population remains susceptible<br>to global terrorism in future and terrorist organizations might pursue to exploit<br>any opportunity to radicalize young people and homegrown terrorist outfits to<br>join their organizations.</p>}, number={2}, journal={NDC E-JOURNAL}, author={Brigadier General AKM Nazmul Hasan, ndc, psc}, year={2017}, month={Dec.}, pages={37-54} }