Thursday, March 31, 2016

Losing your brother to ISIS

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CNN, Losing your brother to ISIS

Snapchat Imams

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qz.com, This imam delivers eight-second Snapchat sermons "For the past few months, Webb, a Muslim scholar based in Washington, D.C., h...

Reading List: What do Islamist extremists believe? Salafi-Jihadism by Shiraz Maher and Crusade and Jihad by Malcolm Lambert

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Guardian, What do Islamist extremists believe? Salafi-Jihadism by Shiraz Maher and Crusade and Jihad by Malcolm Lambert – review
Monday, March 28, 2016

Lahore bombings

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Time.com, Outpouring of Sadness and Solidarity for Pakistan as World Reacts to Lahore Blast, 28 Mar 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

#Brussels attacks

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Round-up of coverage associated with # Brussels attacks   Guardian, Why did the bombers target Belgium? BBC News, Islamic State group ...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

The Battle of Ideas in the Middle East

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BBC World Service, The Battle of Ideas in the Middle East - Part One "Kevin Connolly travels through the Middle East to look at differ...

Istanbul hit by suicide bomb attack

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Guardian, Istanbul hit by suicide bomb attack

Prayers, Pilgrims and Power

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BBC World Service, Prayers, Pilgrims and Power "The Imam Reza shrine in the Iranian city of Mashhad is a spectacular complex visited b...

Syrian 3D Images

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APF, 3D Images of Syria Archaeological Treasures Go Online

Surveillance society

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Duncan Riley, Silicon Angle, You are being watched: The surveillance society of 2016

IS prosecution

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AP, Pizzeria owner who recruited for IS group gets 22 1/2 years "Mufid Elfgeeh, 32, had pleaded guilty in December in federal court in...

Abdeslam arrest

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BBC News, Paris attacks: 'Quick' Abdeslam extradition from Belgium sought, 19 Mar 2016

John Cantlie Video

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Daily Mail, British ISIS hostage John Cantlie appears in new propaganda footage from inside Mosul one year after his last video appearance, ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

'Not all marriages are equal'

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altmuslimah.com, Not all marriages are equal: Islamic marriage, Temporary Marriage, Secret marriage and Polygamous marriage

ISIS lures with video game themes

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RNS, ISIS lures with video game themes "Javier Lesaca, a scholar who has spent hundreds of hours studying ISIS videos, says the terror...

Life Inside 'Islamic State'

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BBC, Life Inside 'Islamic State' "A Syrian man describes the horror of everyday life in the IS stronghold of Raqqa."
Monday, March 14, 2016

Babar Ahmad

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BBC News, Babar Ahmad: My support for Taliban was 'naive', 13 Mar 2016 "A British man jailed over a website considered a key ...

Reading List: new ISIS book

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David Kilcullen, Guardian, The deadly efficiency of Isis and how it grew on the global stage "In this exclusive extract from his hotly...

Jihad: Between Theory and Practice.

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I gave a paper at Leiden University last Friday, as part of their conference Jihad: Between Theory and Practice. It was an interesting eve...
Wednesday, March 09, 2016

'IS' profiled

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BBC News - Islamic State group: The full story [comprehensive, have yet to read it in full]