Jordan: How Close to Danger? by Joost Hiltermann | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

Jordanian officials appear to be far less worried about the refugees than about the growing extremism the Syrian war has been feeding. Jordan is the third-largest contributor of fighters to ISIS after Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, and the Islamic State’s violent strain of Salafism is starting to invade Jordan’s tribal culture.

Source: Jordan: How Close to Danger? by Joost Hiltermann | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

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