Monday, March 31, 2014

Turkey’s online censorship just took a sinister Orwellian turn

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Turkey’s online censorship just took a sinister Orwellian turn – Quartz  "Over the weekend, Google reported that Turkey had intercepted...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Real-time Tracker: #انتخبوا_العرص - Keyhole

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Real-time Tracker: #انتخبوا_العرص - Keyhole : Tracking the viral hashtag #انتخبوا_العرص - which relates to al-Sisi (other hashtags are ava...

French and Belgian Jihadists Boast About the Syrians They Slaughter

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French and Belgian Jihadists Boast About the Syrians They Slaughter - The Daily Beast "A cable news station in Paris has aired shockin...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Radicalisation online

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Social media is new weapon in war on British jihadis - UK Politics - UK - The Independent "Diplomats have quietly opened a new front i...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Facebook

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If you would like regular updates on my research interests, I can be found on Facebook. If you want to link into my posts, then please frien...

Iran condemns Muslim shrine desecration in Syria

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Trend.az, Iran condemns Muslim shrine desecration in Syria "Photos of the mosque posted on the Internet on Wednesday showed extensive ...

'Jihad by social media'

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Sam Jones, FT.com, Jihad by social media " How thousands of young Muslims are being radicalised through social networks and propelled ...

Activities

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I am presently pulling together a paper, on #Islam, Social Media and the Cloud. I have trying to compress thousands of archived images, asse...

'Saudi teacher whipping 13 students caught on camera'

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alarabiya.net, Saudi teacher whipping 13 students caught on camera "The video footage, aired on Al Arabiya News Channel this week, sho...

Twitter and YouTube bans in Turkey: round-up

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I have collected some of the stories associated with Twitter and YouTube bans in Turkey from the past week:  hurriyetdailynews.com, Turke...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Al-Qa'ida, the second act

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Al-Qa'ida, the second act: The hate preachers fuelling sectarianism - Comment - Voices - The Independent  final part of a series by Patr...

Spain: 'Kebab Shops Financing Global Jihad'

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Soeren Kern, gatestoneinstitute.org, Spain: Kebab Shops Financing Global Jihad : "Elmedjeri, a specialist in forging documents, is als...

Hijabers: How young urban Muslim women redefine themselves in Indonesia

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Annisa R Beta, International Communication Gazette, Hijabers: How young urban Muslim women redefine themselves in Indonesia : "This pap...

'American Sharia'

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Trailer for forthcoming comedy, crowd sourced - full details here americanshariamovie.com

'After the Protests'

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Zeynep Tufekci, NY Times, After the Protests, 19 Mar 2014 "Media in the hands of citizens can rattle regimes. It makes it much harder ...

Twitter in Turkey

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NPR, 'We'll Eradicate Twitter,' Turkey's Prime Minister Vows "Reeling from the anonymous release of audio that seems ...

Syrian jihad, from Antwerp

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Øyvind Strømmen, hate-speech.org, Syrian jihad, from Antwerp, 20 Mar 2014 "At least 100 people have left the Netherlands to fight in ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014

BBC Radio 4 - Russia: The Wild East - Episode guide

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BBC Radio 4 - Russia: The Wild East - Episode guide : Timely repeat of Martin Sixsmith's series. The first part discusses the religiou...

Al-Qa’ida, the second act

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Al-Qa’ida, the second act: Why the global 'war on terror' went wrong - Comment - Voices - The Independent : commentary from Patric...

Liking Facebook in Tehran: Social Networking in Iran

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Liking Facebook in Tehran: Social Networking in Iran | Iran Media Program : "Liking Facebook in Tehran: Social Networking in Iran Thi...