City Journal

Guy Sorman’s The Mumbai Strategy begins with an academic pretence: that Islamist terrorists owe more to Leninist thinking than the Quran (nothing new there). Mumbai, 26/11 happened during crucial elections, exposing its links to Al-Qaeda’s global ambition—to conquer a country for its military base and create a model for a future Caliphate. In India, the Internet and the globalised city are destroying the million local, syncretic Islams and converting migrant Muslims to a global Islam. The Indian leadership should acknowledge that with the shift in its economy and urbanisation, “India has become the perfect hunting ground for Islamist recruiters”.

Der Spiegel

Two Spiegel articles deserve particular mention - In the Triangle of Terror by the Spiegel team and Claus Christian Malzahn’s opinion India is pointing in the Right Direction. India is “an outpost of the West in the East” and globalised Mumbai is the city that obviously attracts Islamists' fury. Spiegel makes no secret that it suspects Pakistan. Referring to Carl von Clausewitz, Malzahn says that it is “difficult to win a war when one side refuses to accept moral, military, or state boundaries while the other is permanently bound by them”. This, in brief, is the story of the war against the jihadis. Despite the odds, the Indian and Pakistani regimes can “agree to a marriage of convenience” since they have the same enemy