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Protected: Brabants Dagblad – 'Goh, wat zal Wilders groeien'

Posted on May 26th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: Multiculti Issues.

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Protected: Brabants Dagblad – ‘Goh, wat zal Wilders groeien’

Posted on May 26th, 2007 by martijn.
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The Jamestown Foundation – Al-Qaeda's Media Doctrine: Evolution from Cheerleader to Opinion-Shaper

Posted on May 26th, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

The Jamestown Foundation

Beyond its battlefield successes, therefore, al-Qaeda and its allies have scored an impressive media achievement, moving from the status of jihadi cheerleaders to that of highly modern and competent media operatives and propagandists whose focus is on influencing the Muslim audience. In addition to al-Sahab’s ability to dominate the international media for days at a time when it presents new audio or videotapes of bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, it and the other media organizations it supports or cooperates with have established a pervasive media presence via the internet. This not only provides on-demand religious and military instruction and near real-time news coverage, but denies the militaries of the United States and its Western allies one pillar of their military doctrine—information dominance. The success of al-Qaeda and the Islamists in the media arena has denied Western military planners much of their previous ability to shape the battlefield environment by controlling information flows. Indeed, it may be that the U.S. military and its allies are now in the position of having to look for means with which to break the Islamists’ information domination on battlefields and contested regions across the Muslim world.

Michael Scheuer served as the Chief of the bin Laden Unit at the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999. He is now a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation.

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The Jamestown Foundation – Al-Qaeda’s Media Doctrine: Evolution from Cheerleader to Opinion-Shaper

Posted on May 26th, 2007 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

The Jamestown Foundation

Beyond its battlefield successes, therefore, al-Qaeda and its allies have scored an impressive media achievement, moving from the status of jihadi cheerleaders to that of highly modern and competent media operatives and propagandists whose focus is on influencing the Muslim audience. In addition to al-Sahab’s ability to dominate the international media for days at a time when it presents new audio or videotapes of bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, it and the other media organizations it supports or cooperates with have established a pervasive media presence via the internet. This not only provides on-demand religious and military instruction and near real-time news coverage, but denies the militaries of the United States and its Western allies one pillar of their military doctrine—information dominance. The success of al-Qaeda and the Islamists in the media arena has denied Western military planners much of their previous ability to shape the battlefield environment by controlling information flows. Indeed, it may be that the U.S. military and its allies are now in the position of having to look for means with which to break the Islamists’ information domination on battlefields and contested regions across the Muslim world.

Michael Scheuer served as the Chief of the bin Laden Unit at the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center from 1996 to 1999. He is now a Senior Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation.

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de Volkskrant – Binnenland – Ter Horst gaat radicalisering meten

Posted on May 26th, 2007 by .
Categories: Religious and Political Radicalization.

de Volkskrant – Binnenland – Ter Horst gaat radicalisering meten
Ter Horst gaat radicalisering meten

Janny Groen

DEN HAAG – Minister Ter Horst van Binnenlandse Zaken gaat radicalisering in Nederland in kaart brengen. Het ministerie ontwikkelt een methode om radicalisering te meten. Dit staat in het Actieplan Polarisering en Radicalisering, dat naar verwachting volgende week vrijdag in de ministerraad wordt behandeld.

Het actieplan richt zich zowel op islamitische radicalisering als op rechts- en links-extremisme en op dierenrechtenactivisme. Ter Horst wil ook onderzoeken welke factoren kunnen leiden tot radicalisering. Zo wordt in de meting regionaal in kaart gebracht wat de arbeidsmarktpositie van jongeren is en of er sprake is van schooluitval.

‘Er zijn allerlei ideeën over het verband tussen discriminatie op de arbeidsmarkt en radicalisering, maar dit is nooit breed inzichtelijk gemaakt’, verklaart een woordvoerster van Binnenlandse Zaken. Ministeries hebben toegezegd voor de meting informatie aan te dragen, onder meer van politiekorpsen en de onderwijsinspectie. ‘Als alle informatie wordt gekoppeld, kunnen we mogelijk patronen ontdekken.’

Het blijft moeilijk vast te stellen wanneer radicalisering onderdeel is van jeugdcultuur en wanneer het serieus kan leiden tot ontwrichting van de samenleving, aldus Ter Horst donderdag bij de uitreiking van de essaybundel Radicaliserende Vrouwen. Dat zou volgens haar apart onderzoek vergen. Vermoedelijk in oktober kan de ‘nulmeting’ worden verricht.

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