Report: Jews are ‘Soft Target’ for Competing Islamic State and al-Qaeda | Algemeiner.com

Report: Jews are ‘Soft Target’ for Competing Islamic State and al-Qaeda | Algemeiner.com

Jewish sites are a “soft target” for Muslim extremist groups vying for influence in the radicalized Muslim world, Nick Kaderbhai, a research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London told the Jewish Chronicle on Thursday. “Jews are an obvious target, a soft target. An Islamist could call for an attack on a piece of infrastructure but in the end it’s easier to go and firebomb a shul,” he said. Peter Neumann, the director at the ICSR said Jewish institutions would suffer the turf and ideological war […]