There is no doubt that PET’s Center for Terror Analysis (CTA) would explain, if asked, that “militant Islamism” was something quite different from the benign and cuddly religion of Islam itself. But if you asked it to provide specifics about the differences between the two, it would change the subject.
“Militant Islamism continues to pose the greatest threat to Denmark, PET assesses in a new threat assessment,” by Poul Erik Andersen, Den Korte Avis, March 28, 2023:
While IS supporters with Danish citizenship continue to have free entry from Syria, PET states that Islamic terrorism continues to pose the greatest threat to Denmark
From the new annual threat assessment, which the Police Intelligence Service (PET) has just published today, Monday, it appears, among other things, that:
“The terrorist threat against Denmark remains at the level of ‘serious’, and it is still militant Islamism that constitutes the most significant terrorist threat against Denmark and Danish interests abroad.”
This is what PET’s Center for Terror Analysis (CTA) assesses in the annual “Assessment of the Terror Threat against Denmark”
A new form of threat has gained traction
“However, the nature of the terrorist threat is changing in these years, when new trends are emerging,” states PET
As something new, CTA introduces the concept of ‘hybridization’ in this year’s threat assessment.
It covers a mixture of both traditional ideological and religious as well as non-ideological narratives, expressions and practices of contemporary extremists.
“We can see that it is a growing trend in the West and in Denmark, that individuals increasingly put together a cocktail of their own world and enemy images, which are characterized by ideological and religious ideas,” says Michael Hamann, who is the boss for CTA and continues
“But which is also supplemented by conspiracy theories, extreme fascination with violence and very close personal relationships such as, for example, mental disorders.”…
