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New Zealand's latest terror attack shows why ISIS is harder to defeat online than on the battlefield

  • Written by Joe Burton, Senior Lecturer, New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato
New Zealand's latest terror attack shows why ISIS is harder to defeat online than on the battlefieldFiona Goodall/Getty Images

As Friday’s attack by an ISIS sympathiser in a New Zealand supermarket has shown, ISIS’s extreme ideology still holds strong appeal for some disaffected Muslims living in the west. ISIS ideology did not die in Syria and Iraq with the defeat of ISIL and its plans to establish a caliphate.

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