Emoji 'crackdown' in Indonesia

liberation.fr, L'Indonésie interdit les emojis gays sur les applications de messagerie instantanée

Whatsapp used to fight terrorism in Islington

Islington Gazette, Whatsapp used to fight terrorism in Islington "The Angel Business Improvement District (BID) has set up a mobile phone messaging group where managers will be sent urgent police alerts and images of people in the area suspected of being extremists."

Iranians speak out over sexual harassment scandal

BBC News, Iranians speak out over sexual harassment scandal "Allegations of sexual harassment at an Iranian TV station are emboldening Iranian women to break their silence and share their experiences of a problem traditionally not acknowledged inside the country."

"Gershad"

BBC News, Iranian youth get app to dodge morality police "An anonymous team of Iranian app developers have come up with a solution to help young fashion conscious Iranians avoid the country's notorious morality police known in Persian as "Ershad" or guidance."

Shocking new ISIS video shows four-year-old British boy dubbed 'Jihadi Junior' blowing up four alleged spies in a car bomb

Daily Mail, Shocking new ISIS video shows four-year-old British boy dubbed 'Jihadi Junior' blowing up four alleged spies in a car bomb "The four year old British boy dubbed 'Jihadi Junior' has been filmed detonating the bomb which kills four ISIS prisoners in the group's latest execution video."

Virtually Islamic

Virtually Islamic, my main research website, has been restored after a brief technical interlude.

'Islamic State is no longer so formidable on the battlefield'

Hugh Naylor, Washington Post, Islamic State is no longer so formidable on the battlefield, 8 Feb 2016 "The Islamic State’s recent defeats on the battlefield signal that its once-vaunted militia army has been hobbled by worsening money problems, desertions and a dwindling pool of fighters, analysts and monitoring groups say." Opinion.

Two British Members of Islamic State 'Beatles' Have Been Identified

Vice News, Two British Members of Islamic State 'Beatles' Have Been Identified, 7 Feb 2016 On Sunday, a Washington Post and BuzzFeed investigation named a member of the group known as "Jihadi Ringo" as 32-year-old Londoner Alexanda Kotey, while an ITV News investigation also named Kotey as well as identifying a third member of the group as Aine Davis, a drug dealer who converted to Islam and left the UK in 2013.

'Twitter suspends 125,000 'terrorism' accounts'

BBC News, Twitter suspends 125,000 'terrorism' accounts, 5 Feb 2016 

"In a blog, the US-based firm said the accounts "primarily related to ISIS" (the so-called Islamic State group)."

' ISIS release chilling video of English-speaking child beheading hostage and threatening America '

Daily Mirror, ISIS release chilling video of English-speaking child beheading hostage and threatening America, 4 Feb 2016

'Hijab Barbie'

Rachel Lubitz, mic.com, This "Hijab Barbie" May Be the Cutest Style Star on Instagram "Adam, who lives in Nigeria, uses her Instagram account Hijarbie to showcase "mini hijab fashion." That means photo after photo of the Barbie-style doll we know — tall, thin, long-legged, probably blonde — wearing clothes we're less used to: Instead of princess gowns or hot pants, it's all hijabs and abayas."

Qur'an teaching online

Tim Craig, Washington Post/ndtv, 'Read It Correctly!' Via Skype, Islamic Teaching Flows Out Of Pakistan, 1 Feb 2016, "With lax telecommunications laws, a large pool of potential teachers and relatively new technologies such as Skype, Pakistan has become a global hub for computerized training courses on how to become a properly observant Muslim."

'Iraq seeks to take Islamic State offline'

Reuters, To silence propaganda, Iraq seeks to take Islamic State offline " Iraq is trying to persuade satellite firms to halt Internet services in areas under Islamic State's rule, seeking to deal a major blow to the group's potent propaganda machine which relies heavily on social media to inspire its followers to wage jihad."

Islamic State's 'Radio Caliphate'

catchnews.com, Islamic State's Radio Caliphate, internet system in Afghanistan reportedly destroyed; But locals still hear broadcast

Boko Haram

Guardian, Join us or die: the birth of Boko Haram, 4 Feb 2016 extracts from Andrew Walker’s new book, Eat the Heart of the Infidel (Hurst).

China + 'Salafism'

Jonathan Kaiman, LA Times, In China, rise of Salafism fosters suspicion and division among Muslims, 1 Feb 2016 "The growth in the Salafi movement here has rattled China's officially atheist communist government, which finds any expression of religious fervor to be unnerving, especially when it carries associations with foreign extremists."

Natakallam

Quartz, Syrian refugees are offering Arabic lessons to students abroad through Skype "To get started, you fill out a simple questionnaire on Natakallam’s website, then specify your availability in a shared spreadsheet. Classes can be bought singly or in bundles. A Natakallam administrator looks over each prospective student’s level, goals, general interests and preferred schedule, and matches him or her with a conversation partner." This is a great idea. See natakallam.com

IS Skype

Daily Mirror, ISIS conducts online bomb-making tutorials over Skype to recruit youths " Terror leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdad is said to have personally conducted some of the online tutorials, in a bid to brainwash more young Muslims in India"

Tareena Shakil

BBC News, Tareena Shakil jailed for six years for joining IS, 1 Feb 2016 "Shakil, a former health worker from Birmingham, but formerly of Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire, admitted travelling to Syria but denied joining IS and encouraging acts of terrorism through messages posted on Twitter."

Instagram imams

BBC News, Instagram imams are unlikely online hit, 1 Feb 2016 " They shoot hoops with schoolgirls, pose with Christmas trees to wish seasons greetings to Christians and even make the tea. These are not images of Iranian clerics which the world is so used to seeing.

"But an Instagram account that posts pictures of Islamic scholars in everyday situations has become a social media success in Iran and has more than 12,000 followers."

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