Narcotic jihad

Since the Islamic revolution in 1979, Iran has been a state sponsor of terrorism worldwide. The production and trade of narcotics has been a key to this enterprise. The respective logistics function as a main infrastructure for Iran’s global export of Jihadism and is an early example of the growing crime-terror nexus. On behalf of the country’s clerical regime, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in particular its Quds Force (QF), as well as the Niruyeh Moghavemat Basij (or Basiji) and its international proxies, are running Iran’s global drug business. Its focus is on the Middle East and the US, but it is not geographically limited, as it also includes regions such as South and Central Asia and Europe. For some time now, Latin America has also become a launch pad for subversive activities in the US. Illegal drug trade is not managed by stray members of Iran’s state apparatus it is a core interest and a central element of its policy. Research shows that the so-called anti-drug campaign promoted by Iran’s security agencies is not aimed at eradicating drug trade production and consumption; it is used to ruthlessly eliminate competing actors in the drug business, and sometimes to eliminate political opposition and to suppress ethnic and religious minorities.

To date, much of the literature on the financing of terrorism and insurgency has focused at the macro-level on groups involved in financing their organizations through involvement in the drug trade. This is a threat faced by the new generation of jihadists in the world, security forces and intelligence services must also look at the micro-level of how lower level trafficking, drug dealing and petty criminal activity, combined with prison radicalization and ties to the black market and illicit underworld, combine to present a new spin on a longstanding threat. To be sure, the micro-level is even more difficult to counter, given already poor community-police cooperation and relations in the marginalized communities throughout the West. Further, the threat from drug trafficking at the micro-level can be equally as nefarious, as smaller cells are given greater autonomy to finance plots, recruit new members and ultimately conduct attacks in developed democracies. This activity of terrorist groups aiming the youth by making the non-Islamic as drug addicts instead of killing them. Some policy recommendations is searching by host-nations build capacity in critical areas, including law enforcement and intelligence, from the local to the state to the federal level.

ISIS has revelled in its brutality. Reports of ISIS fighters, jihadist terrorists and insurgents fuelled by drugs on their murderous rampages have generated outrage and astonishment. ISIS’s substance of choice is Captagon, a powerful stimulant metabolised in the body to form amphetamine and theophylline. In short, ISIS fighters are high on two powerful intoxicants: jihad and psychostimulants.

Narcotic jihad is a truth. The theory says Narcotic jihad is the activity of spoiling the life of non-Muslims, particularly youths, by making them addicted to drugs. . Bishop Coorilose Geevarghese rejected this claim and stated that Kerala Christians face no threat

References

7. https://www.efsas.org/publications/study-papers/%E2%80%98narco-jihad%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-haram-money-for-a-halal-cause/