{"id":52834,"date":"2016-10-10T23:52:25","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52834"},"modified":"2016-10-10T23:52:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:52:25","slug":"aq-isis-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=52834","title":{"rendered":"AQ < ISIS < Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a ladder of escalation? a question of quality vs quantity? &#8212; it&#8217;s hard to judge ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tablet-DQ-600-comparative-violence-AQ-IS-BH.png\" alt=\"tablet-dq-600-comparative-violence-aq-is-bh\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tablet-DQ-600-comparative-violence-AQ-IS-BH.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tablet-DQ-600-comparative-violence-AQ-IS-BH-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<li>In single event death toll, <strong>al-Qaida<\/strong> has set 9\/11 as the high water mark.\n<li>In terms of territory captured (and enslaved) <strong>ISIS<\/strong> had conjoint swathes of Iraq and Syria.\n<li>In terms of repudiation, <strong>Boko Haram<\/strong> has been repudiated for excessive violence by ISIS.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Note also that depending on whether your definition of terrorist includes state-sponsored groups, insurgents in occupied lands, etc or not, the list of &#8220;most violent&#8221; may also include the <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/feature\/washington-watching-the-5-deadliest-terrorist-groups-the-11687?page=show\">Quds Force, Haqqani Network, and Kataib Hezbollah<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And one 2014 list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/pop-culture\/2014\/06\/most-violent-terrorist-groups-in-the-world\/\">The Most Violent Terrorist Groups in the World Right Now<\/a> listed Al-Qaeda, Ansar al-Sharia, Hamas, Lashkar-e Taiba, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party, Abu Sayyaf Group, Revolutionary People&#8217;s Liberation Party, Hezbollah, Taliban, FARC, and Boko Haram &#8212; though the inclusion of FARC illustrates just how tricky formulating (and updating!) such lists can be..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a ladder of escalation? a question of quality vs quantity? &#8212; it&#8217;s hard to judge ] . ** In single event death toll, al-Qaida has set 9\/11 as the high water mark. In terms of territory captured (and enslaved) ISIS had conjoint swathes of Iraq and Syria. In terms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,1049,526,627,1078,1047,758,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaida","category-boko-haram","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-is","category-isis","category-quant-qualit","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52834"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52865,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52834\/revisions\/52865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}