One of the most remarkable commentaries on Salman Abedi’s terrorist attack in Manchester came from Shashank Joshi, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank: “It’s very well known that misogyny is deeply rooted in the radical Islamist worldview,” said Joshi (quoted in the Washington Post, May 23, 2017). The terrorism expert thinks that it is no coincidence that on the stage was Ariana Grande, the 23-year-old U.S. megastar whose lyrics champion female power. Grande presents herself as “Dangerous Woman” and one of her greatest hits is “Don’t need permission.” This is a clear reference to ideology as a motivating factor in terrorist attacks, something that is usually shunned in articles on terrorism in mainstream media. It is not impossible, though, that one of the consequences of Mr. Trump to the Middle East will  be a paradigm shift in the way we look at...(Read Full Article)