Why do terrorists attack mosques?

Ironically, Al-Nuri mosque is the Mosul’s great mosque from the pulpit of it, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, in his first public appearance delivered his infamous speech and declared himself as the new “Caliph” . read more

To try to figure out why terrorists do what they do, researchers at the think tank New America and I reviewed court records in more than 300 cases of people charged with jihadist terrorism in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, ranging from relatively trivial cases, like sending small sums of money to a foreign terrorist organization, to very serious ones, like murder. read more