Some UQ academics say that university- and government-funded terrorism research in Australia “shifts the blame [for the threat] on to the West” and ignores the role of radical Islamism in breeding terrorists.

According to The Australian, one professor notes many researchers:

…come from the ideological point that the West is bad, the US foreign policy is bad and therefore must be to blame for these poor misunderstood individuals. It misses the point the individuals are becoming radicalised and do become radicalised into believing that Islam and jihad is a legitimate form of response and asymmetric warfare. [He] said failing to examine the origins of terrorism neutralised the risks posed, particularly the threat of homegrown terrorism. He said researchers viewed terrorism as a construct of Western governments to create a climate of fear to increase the powers of the state.

Sound familiar? When it comes to terrorism, the same blinders seem to go on throughout Western academe. The failure of researchers to get a handle on where the terrorist threat comes from does not augur well for victory in this war.