New Islamist websites seek to recruit women (Magharebia.com)

Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by .
Categories: International Terrorism, Religious and Political Radicalization.

New Islamist websites seek to recruit women (Magharebia.com)
30/08/2007

Despite efforts to monitor and counter internet sites designed to recruit and train terrorists, sites continue to appear on the web, including those targeting female jihadists.

By Jamel Arfaoui for Magharebia in Tunis – 30/08/2007

In a study published in Tunisia’s Le Temps last week, religious scholar Dr. Iqbal Gharbi said the number of websites devoted to female Jihad has increased, along with their forms and amount of content.

Gharbi, professor of religious anthropology at the Zitouna Institute, identified four general functions the sites aim to achieve: distance learning, dissemination of the Salafist call, mobilisation and terrorism on the Internet.

Gharbi, who has been tracking 20 websites directed towards Muslim women, said, “Islamists have accelerated the use of the Internet, which is the symbol of Western technology, and more precisely of US technology, which they continuously criticize. However, the pragmatic approach which allowed for the use of this Western means has proved its validity and has had a lot of benefits.” According to Gharbi, one of the most important benefits to Islamist groups is that they no longer require geographical space for their activities, using the Internet instead for training and co-ordination. (more…)

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Protected: de Volkskrant – Binnenland – OM eist 6 jaar tegen Samir A. in oude zaak

Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization, Young Muslims.

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de Volkskrant – Altijd een antwoord, op elk vraagstuk

Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by .
Categories: ISIM/RU Research, Religious and Political Radicalization, Religious Movements.

de Volkskrant – Altijd een antwoord, op elk vraagstuk
Altijd een antwoord, op elk vraagstuk

de Volkskrant, Binnenland, 7 augustus 2007 (pagina 02)
Janny Groen Annieke Kranenberg

Vader en zoon Salam uit Tilburg belichamen de meest orthodoxe variant van de islam. Hun invloed strekt zich uit tot het buitenland. Door Janny Groen en Annieke Kranenberg

De Salams zouden hun ‘eerste vrouwen’ hebben achtergelaten in Syrië

‘Een moeras ontstaan uit uitwerpselen’ Ahmad en Suhayb Salam hebben hun medewerking aan dit profiel geweigerd. Evenmin hebben zij inhoudelijk gereageerd op dit artikel, wat de Volkskrant hun had toegezonden met het aanbod feitelijke onjuistheden recht te zetten en te reageren op aantijgingen. Deze publicatie toont in hun ogen aan dat er ‘zaken bestaan die verwerpelijker en lager zijn’ dan ‘een moeras (…) dat is ontstaan uit uitwerpselen en uitscheidingen van allerlei soorten wezens’, antwoordt Suhayb Salam per e-mail. Dit soort artikelen, en ook de journalisten, zullen volgens hem door ‘een lichte windvlaag uit de geschiedenis worden geblazen’. Ook laat hij weten de journalisten te willen aanklagen wegens smaad en laster.

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de Volkskrant – ‘Ik wil gaan léven!’

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Categories: Internal Debates, Multiculti Issues.

de Volkskrant – ‘Ik wil gaan léven!’
‘Ik wil gaan léven!’

de Volkskrant, Intermezzo, 11 augustus 2007 (pagina I10)
Janny Groen Annieke Kranenberg

Ze voeren een strijd in stilte, de Marokkaanse jongeren die vaak wel geloven, maar ook een wijntje drinken en soms een grap maken over Allah. De ‘zwarte schapen’ helpen elkaar. ‘Hé Fatima, wil je ook meer rust in je hoofd?’ Door Janny Groen en Annieke Kranenberg

‘We weten dat we hypocriet bezig zijn, maar het kan nu even niet anders’

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Protected: Amnesty International Nederland – Wordt Vervolgd – Interview Nooitgedagt, advocaat Hofstadgroep

Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by martijn.
Categories: International Terrorism, Multiculti Issues, Murder on theo Van Gogh and related issues, Religious and Political Radicalization.

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The Times/John Gray: A trail of terror stretching 200 years – What links Robespierre and the Haymarket bombers?

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Categories: International Terrorism.

The Times: A trail of terror stretching 200 years – What links Robespierre and the Haymarket bombers?
John Gray (His book Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia is published by Penguin on July 5)

At a time when Islamist terrorism seems to have returned to the centre of London, it is easy to forget that during the 20th century terror was used on a vast scale by secular regimes. Today suicide attacks are automatically linked with a belief in martyrdom followed by paradise in the afterlife. Yet suicide bombing of the kind we now confront is a terrorist technique that was developed by people with no such beliefs. Though they claim to reject all things modern and Western, Islamist terrorists are continuing a modern Western tradition of using systematic violence to transform society. The roots of contemporary terrorism are in radical Western ideology – especially Leninism – far more than religion.

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