Bosnian Salafi Preacher Bilal Bosnić Sings Songs Of Jihad: 'With Explosives On Our Chests We Pave The Way To Paradise'

MEMRI, Bosnian Salafi Preacher Bilal Bosnić Sings Songs Of Jihad: 'With Explosives On Our Chests We Pave The Way To Paradise', 14 Jun 2012:

ISIM Review

ISIM Review 21, Spring 2008 (pdf) I am still working my way through the latest edition, which has several articles containing Islam and the net associated content. Here are some which caught my attention (links go through to individual articles, alternatively the entire Review can be downloaded above).

• Al-Albani’s Revolutionary Approach to Hadith / Stéphane Lacroix
• The Local and the Global in Saudi Salafism / Madawi Al-Rasheed
• The Development of British Salafism / Sadek Hamid
• Purist Salafism in France / Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
• Mujahidin in Bosnia: From Ally to Challenger / Onder Cetin
• From Local Insurgency to Al-Qaida Franchise / Sami Zemni

Madawi Al-Rasheed's article is taken from her book Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), and includes a discussion on Lewis Atiyat Allah. The book is well-worth reading in full. Professor Al-Rasheed now has a blog.

The other articles incude ongoing research. They show variations in the 'salafi' concept, both in terms of the content of the articles and the distinctions made by actors between different approaches to 'salafi', and in the outlooks of the writers.

For different reasons, I found these ones useful too:

• Imams in the Netherlands: Expectations and Realities / Welmoet Boender
• Resisting “Blackness”: Muslim Arab Sudanese in the Diaspora / Anita Fabos

Censorship

Gulf News, Qtel ‘goes by local laws’ in blocking websites, 18 Sept 07, "In Qatar web censorship revolved round three main areas; pornography, political criticism of Gulf countries and anti-Islamic sites, Qtel sources said."

AFP, Turkish court orders YouTube blocked, 18 Sept 07, "The decision followed a complaint by a resident in the eastern city of Sivas that the site hosted videos containing insults against Turkey's founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the army, the Anatolia news agency reported."

The mobile imam

Guardian, Sacked imam wins right to employment tribunal, 17 Sept 07 [scroll down for headline] "An imam accused of offering "hotline" blessings, spiritual healings and exorcisms via his mobile phone for a fee won the right to take his case to an employment tribunal yesterday."

Palestinian cyberspace

Very useful article: Atlantic Free Press, Palestinian Propaganda Prize for Israel, 18 Sept 07, "... Hamas for the first time ever cracked down on Internet Web sites. The Open Net Initiative (ONI) has studied the status of Internet censorship in 40 countries including the OPT. ONI’s researchers found no filtering at all in Russia, Israel or the Palestinian territories despite political conflicts there (2007). This finding tells that the cyber-freedom is aught to be absolute in the West Bank and Gaza contrary to all Arab countries without exception. This has now to change."

aQ

ABC, Cyberspace driving 'liquid terrorism', 19 Sept 07 including audio comment from Waheed Aly at Monash Uni. ""So this is what some analysts are starting to talk about now, not Al Qaeda which is largely irrelevant, but Al Qaedaism," he said.

""It's just an ideological symbol and people pick and choose, and they take from it whatever they want, and they do it via global media and they do it by cyberspace.""

Bosnia

Reuters India, Tape suggests Bosnian general lied about mujahideen 14 Sept 07, "An audio recording on the Internet suggests foreign Muslim fighters accused of atrocities in the 1992-95 Bosnia war were under the command of the chief of Bosnian government forces, contrary to his denial." This material is on YouTube.