{"id":14542,"date":"2025-07-28T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/?p=14542"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:08:40","slug":"the-islamist-motivated-terrorist-attack-in-villach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/en\/the-islamist-motivated-terrorist-attack-in-villach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Islamist-motivated terrorist attack in Villach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamist-motivated knife attack in Villach in February 2025 highlights the growing threat posed by online radicalization. Since the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, Salafist-jihadist networks have stepped up their propaganda on the internet and created a \u201cvirtual caliphate\u201d that reaches young Muslims via social media and encrypted platforms. The alleged perpetrator in Villach\u2014an asylum seeker who was radicalized online\u2014is a prime example of this new, location-independent threat.<\/p>\n<p>(This article is only available in German)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Der-islamistisch-motivierte-Terrorakt-von-Villach.pdf\" target=\"\">Der islamistisch motivierte Terrorakt von Villach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamist-motivated knife attack in Villach in February 2025 highlights the growing threat posed by online radicalization. Since the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, Salafist-jihadist networks have stepped up their propaganda on the internet and created a \u201cvirtual caliphate\u201d that reaches young Muslims via social media and encrypted platforms. The alleged perpetrator in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-33","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14545,"href":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14542\/revisions\/14545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eictp.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}