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Marawi, Movida and ISIS in South East Asia

It has been more than a month the Marawi City has been attack by ISIS. In Mosul, ISIS was defeated and in Raqqa the coalition forces almost took over the capital of the caliphate. Many foreign fighters of ISIS are now returning home or going to 'other' battle grounds. ISIS wants to recreate its caliphate elsewhere. South East Asia seems to be more suitable for them. The ongoing 'war' in Marawi is a solid evidence to prove this notion. A year ago, ISIS landed in Malaysia officially when it launched its attack in Movida Bar, Puchong. Unlike in Philippines where ISIS wanted to establish a ‘ wilayat’ or region like in Syria and Iraq, in Malaysia they just want to show their presence. Therefore, future attacks in Malaysia and other parts of South East Asia will be similar as the attacks in Paris, London and Berlin. In Malaysia, ISIS is going to use 'soft weapons' like knife, vehicles (car, motorcycle, van, tanker lorry or container lorr