It was early 2016, and I had gone to #Trinidad to report on Trinidadian #ISIS foreign fighters for The Atlantic. Between 2013 and 2016, some 240 Trinis travelled to #Syria and Iraq to join the caliphate, making Trinidad one of the world’s biggest exporters, per capita, of ISIS foreign fighters. I wanted to know how a country famed for #calypso, rum and carnival could incubate something so profoundly unTrinidadian.
https://unherd.com/2022/07/the-jihadists-of-the-caribbean/ #is #islamism #war #corruption #religion #violence #iraq