Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Saudi Grand Mufti urges Muslims to use internet to fight terror
alarabiya.net, Saudi Grand Mufti urges Muslims to use internet to fight terror "Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al Sheikh has urged Muslims throughout the world to use the internet and social media to help combat terrorism, state news agency SPA reported on Sunday."
Monday, March 09, 2015
‘Thugs wanted – bring your own boots.’
Guardian, ‘Thugs wanted – bring your own boots.’ How Isis attracts foreign fighters to its twisted utopia new book by JM Berger and Jessica E. Stern.
Khelafabook
Independent, Isis has made its own version of Facebook, because it keeps getting banned. "Khelafabook had the appearance of a normal social network, but had a photograph of the world with Isis logos posted over its countries as its background. It appeared to have been built on a platform called SocialKit, which anyone can download and use to make social networks of their own." Also see vocativ.com, ISIS Opens Its Own Social Network
ISIS spread its reach through Twitter with 46,000 accounts
ISIS spread its reach through Twitter with 46,000 accounts - CNET also see Brookings, The ISIS Twitter census: Defining and describing the population of ISIS supporters on Twitter and the report here by J.M. Berger and Jonathon Morgan. The report looks comprehensive, but I have yet to read it in detail.
Friday, March 06, 2015
ISIS: What's a Poor Religionist to Do?
MRBlog | ISIS: What's a Poor Religionist to Do? - The Marginalia Review of Books "ISIS presents scholars of religion with a real problem. Rather than use the Islamic State as an opportunity to nuance the way we talk about religion in public discourse, this self-described caliphate has instead exposed some of the failures endemic to the discipline as currently conceived. Squabbling over whether members of ISIS (or Boko Haram or al-Qaeda, and so on) are “real” or “fake” Muslims takes us to the heart of an intractable debate plaguing the study of religion."
Monday, March 02, 2015
Boko Haram
naij.com, How Boko Haram May Benefit From Using Social Media "The danger is that if we allow Boko Haram to bring the war to social media, we will be dealing with something much bigger than we currently are. Those assuming Boko Haram is never going to find someone on social media willing to join the group are deceiving themselves. We once thought Nigerians would never get involved in suicide bombing. Now we know better."
Is Germany’s Top Terrorist Dead or Alive?
Is Germany’s Top Terrorist Dead or Alive? - Geopoliticalmonitor.com "All of the supposedly “new” Cuspert videos that have emerged since his reported death are in fact just short amateur videos, which appear to have been shot with cell phones or cheap camcorders. Cuspert is present in these clips, along with other German- or Arabic-speaking jihadists, but he is not the focus. The clips have been posted on the web – in one case by an anti-ISIS organization – but, unlike Cuspert’s own videos, they have not been released under the logo of known jihadist media."
China Net
techtimes.com, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Other Chinese Tech Titans Wipe Out More Than 60,000 Online Accounts "China's top Internet regulating body, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), said on its website that Baidu, Weibo, Tencent, and Alibaba have deleted more than 60,000 accounts because of usernames that were misleading, promoted pornography, or had links to terrorist groups."
IRGC tightens monitoring of online crimes
PressTV, IRGC tightens monitoring of online crimes "The IRGC Cyber Security Command’s Center for the Investigation of Organized Crimes said in a statement on Sunday that it plans to expose the insecurity of Facebook for organized moral crimes."
Former Islamic State prisoner confirms Sotloff hid Jewishness
TimesOfIsrael, Former Islamic State prisoner confirms Sotloff hid Jewishness "A former Islamic State hostage confirmed that beheaded journalist Steven Sotloff successfully concealed his religion and Israeli citizenship from his captors."
ISIS Threatens Twitter Founder And Employees Over Blocked Accounts
buzzfeed.com, ISIS Threatens Twitter Founder And Employees Over Blocked Accounts "ISIS supporters on Sunday called on jihadis around the world to kill Twitter employees because of the company’s frequent blocking of their social media accounts."
Raif Badawi
Independent, Raif Badawi, the Saudi Arabian blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes, may now face death penalty "Raif Badawi, the Saudi Arabian blogger whose punishment of 1,000 lashes has prompted international condemnation, may now face the death penalty."
Iran to allow Google to operate if it respects 'cultural' values
Guardian, Iran to allow Google to operate if it respects 'cultural' values "Iran could allow internet firms such as Google to operate in the Islamic republic if they respect its cultural rules, a senior official has said.
“We are not opposed to any of the entities operating in global markets who want to offer services in Iran,” the deputy telecommunications and information technology minister, Nasrollah Jahangard, told the Fars news agency on Sunday."
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