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Boaz Ganor. Global Alert: The Rationality of Modern Islamist Terrorism and the Challenge to the Liberal Democratic Order: New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 240 pp., $29.93 hardcover. ISBN: 978-0231172127
In: Terrorism and political violence, Volume 28, Issue 5, p. 990-992
ISSN: 1556-1836
Of Jihads, Jihadists, and Jihadisms
In: Terrorism and political violence, Volume 28, Issue 4, p. 803-812
ISSN: 1556-1836
On Self-Declared Caliph Ibrahim's December 2015 Speech: Further Evidence for Critical Vulnerabilities in the Crumbling Caliphate
Excerpt: On December 26, 2015 a 24-minute audio message was released by the Islamic State Organization's (ISO) official media arm al-Furqan.
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The Mysterious Case of the Islamic State Organization (iso) Smiling Martyr--Solved
Excerpt: For a mere Muslim mortal, Allah's granting of martyrdom (Shahada) is the pinnacle of spiritual achievement. The martyr (Shahid) is granted unique privileges among which are the right to bypass the moral interrogation meted out to determine after death whether one is spiritually fit; the complete freedom from all anguish, pain, and suffering caused by one's wounds as one immediately traverses into the highest of seven heavens; the right to intercede and request divine favors on behalf of seventy of one's loved one's; the enjoyment of exclusive sexual privileges with seventy-two virgins; and finally, the right to exist within the proximity of the All Mighty Allah and an eternity spent in enjoyment of the sumptuous delights of a blessed paradise.
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Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani's May 21, 2016 Speech: More Evidence for Extreme Marginalization, Implosion, and the Islamic State Organization's Certain Future as a Hunted Underground Ultra-Takfiri Terrorist Criminal Entity
Excerpt: On May 21, 2016 a 31-minute audio file by Islamic State Organization (ISO) chief spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani (real name: Taha Sobhi Falaha) was uploaded by the ISO's Al Furqan Media outlet onto the internet.
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How Muslim Defenders Became "Blood Spilling" Crusaders: Adam Gadahn's Critique of the "Jihadist" Subversion of Al Qaeda's Media Warfare Strategy
In: Terrorism and political violence, Volume 29, Issue 3, p. 444-463
ISSN: 1556-1836
How Muslim Defenders Became "Blood Spilling" Crusaders: Adam Gadahn's Critique of the "Jihadist" Subversion of Al Qaeda's Media Warfare Strategy
Adam Gadahn's Abbottabad letter offers a rare opportunity to examine how this Al Qaeda Senior Leadership ( AQSL) media operative and spokesman conceptualizes and executes media warfare. In this article, I first introduce, depict, and employ the author's Terrorist Quadrangle Analysis (TQA) as a useful heuristic for conceptualiz ing and representing the four interrelated components of the AQSL terrorist enterprise: political objectives, media warfare, terrorist attacks, and strategic objec tives. This TQA construct is then employed to conceptualize Gadahn's media warfare acumen. Gadahn is shown to be an adept communications warfare operative who conscientiously disaggregates and evaluates key target audiences, messengers, messa ging, and media. Gadahn's vehement critique of select "jihadi'' groups, in particular Tehrik-i-Taliban {TTP), al-Shabaab, and the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), is then described. Key here is how and why Gadahn denounces their indiscriminate, murderous terrorist attacks on Muslim non-combatant civilians and other protected persons as effectively subverting his intended AQSL media warfare strategy and undermining AQSL strategic and religio-political objectives. A concluding section briefly sum- marizes these chief findings, offers select implications for scholarship and counter-AQSL messaging strategy, and identifies study limitations.
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Baghdadi's Bunker: Five Essential Tasks for Which the World Should Now Prepare
Excerpt: The Islamic State Organization (ISO) will be defeated. That defeat will occur sooner rather than later. The nature of this terrorist organization suggests that preparations should now be made to minimize the carnage, loss of irreplaceable life, and cultural treasures that may without sufficient preparation accompany the final days and aftermath of ISO.
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Has Adam Gadahn Forsaken the Lawful Jihad for Anti-Americanism? A Case Study of Ideological Contradictions
Despite his importance as a senior Al-Qaeda spokesman, no detailed examination exists of Adam Yahiye Gadahn's employment of fiqh al-jihad—that branch of Islamic jurisprudence regulating the lawful waging of jihad—to condemn or condone violence committed in the name of Al-Qaeda. This article first provides a detailed exposition of Gadahn's sharia-based critique of affiliates' conduct deemed by him in violation of Islamic law and involving the commission of major sins. Second, Gadahn's conception of fiqh al-jihad is contextualized and contrasted with the comprehensive fiqh al-jihad-based critiques produced by respected militant Islamist scholars. A key finding here is that Gadahn (unlike these scholars) illicitly truncates the application of fiqh al-jihad with the result that he demands sharia-compliance when criticizing intra-Islamist violence yet ignores sharia-compliance when targeting America and Americans. Third, reasons are considered for this incoherent application of fiqh al-jihad and attempted Islamic legalization of anti-American mass casualty terrorist attacks. Finally, the discussion concludes with implications for counter-Al-Qaeda strategy.
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On Self-Declared Caliph Ibrahim's May 2015 Message to Muslims: Key Problems of Motivation, Marginalization, Illogic, and Empirical Delusion in the Caliphate Project
Excerpt: On May 14, 2015 a 34-minute audio message was released by the self-proclaimed Islamic State's media arm al-Furqan.
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The Egyptian Islamic Group's Critique of Al-Qaeda's Interpretation of Jihad
A specific branch of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh al-jihad) regulates the waging of the jihad of the sword (jihad bis saif). In this article, a detailed exposition is presented of the Egyptian Islamic Group's (IG; Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiyya) use of fiqh al jihad against Al-Qaeda. The present author's 'jihad-realist' approach is first briefly described; the IG's critique of AQ systematically outlined; and in conclusion, implications are derived for counter-radicalisation strategies.
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Al Qaeda'sShariaCrisis: Sayyid Imam and the Jurisprudence of Lawful MilitaryJihad
In: Studies in conflict and terrorism, Volume 36, Issue 5, p. 394-418
ISSN: 1521-0731
Al Qaeda's Sharia crisis: Sayyid Iman and the jurisprudence of lawful military jihad
In: Studies in conflict & terrorism, Volume 36, Issue 5, p. 394-418
ISSN: 1057-610X
World Affairs Online
A Review of: "Hillel Frisch and Efraim Inbar (Eds.).Radical Islam and International Security: Challenges and Responses. Tamar Meisels.The Trouble With Terror: Liberty, Security, and the Response to Terrorism.": BESA Studies in International Security. London and New York: Routledge, 2008. viii-xi + 2...
In: Terrorism and political violence, Volume 24, Issue 1, p. 144-157
ISSN: 1556-1836