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The purpose of this paper is to provide a counter-ideology framework as an alternative strategy to
defeat terrorists, as military force has never been proven enough to defeat any terrorist group. The analysis relies
on secondary information for systematic examination and descriptive analysis resulting in the use of Counter
Terrorism Strategy (CTS) model to evaluate key assumption that acts of terrorist recruits are connected to deep
politics and ideology. The paper therefore posits that the use of genuine religious messages to isolate terrorists
from communities and ultimately make them short of new recruits should be considered. This finding has
critical implications for institutions, governments, intelligence communities, regulators and policymakers, that
the military crackdown would not yield the needed result, hence the need for a counter-ideology as a strategy
to fight terrorism, particularly in the Sahel region
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