Abu Uqayl’s Video : What Does It Portend for 2018?

• Main Author: Kumar Ramakrishna
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Global; Country and Region Studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87197; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44332
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The video showing the execution of unarmed prisoners by Singaporean Abu Uqayl and other ISIS militants underlines the continuing terrorist threat despite ISIS’ military defeat in Iraq and Syria. In 2018, countering violent extremist ideology and managing excessively puritanical teachings that emphas...