Archive for the ‘Ideological trends’ Category

A Crash Course in Jihadi Theory (Part 4)

Posted: 14th February 2011 by Joas Wagemakers in Ideological trends, Palestinian Territories
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As we saw in the previous parts of this series, the Shari’a Council of the Jama’at al-Tawhid wa-l-Jihad in Gaza wrote a book that can be described as a “crash course” in jihadi theory. In part 1, I described how the council used the term taghut (idol, pl. tawaghit) to accuse the rulers of the [...]

A Crash Course in Jihadi Theory (Part 3)

Posted: 24th November 2010 by Joas Wagemakers in Ideological trends, Palestinian Territories
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In the first part of this series on a book written by the Shari’a Council of the Jama’at al-Tawhid wa-l-Jihad in Gaza, we saw that its authors were highly critical of the rulers of the Muslim world and employed their Islamist terminology to accuse these rulers of kufr (unbelief), the details of which are dealt [...]

A Crash Course in Jihadi Theory (Part 2)

Posted: 26th October 2010 by Joas Wagemakers in Ideological trends, Palestinian Territories
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In the first part of this series on a book describing what every jihadi ought to know, we saw that the authors of the book, the Shari’a Council of the Jama’at al-Tawhid wa-l-Jihad in Gaza, initially seemed to give a purely religious description of things but quickly moved on to the political relevance of what [...]

Quilliam Report

Posted: 27th September 2010 by Thomas Hegghammer in Better Know a Forum, Ideological trends, Jihadi media, propaganda, Recruitment, technology
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The Quilliam Foundation, a London based think tank, has released a very interesting new report by Muhammad Ali Musawi titled Cheering for Osama: How Jihadis Use Discussion Forums. It is one of the best introductions to the world of online jihadism that I have seen. It also points out some recent forum trends that should [...]

A Crash Course in Jihadi Theory (Part 1)

Posted: 21st September 2010 by Joas Wagemakers in Ideological trends, Palestinian Territories
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Throughout the years, the number of jihadi writings has grown enormously. Nowadays, books and fatwas on any given subject related to jihadi thought can easily be found and downloaded from the internet. As a service to those who can’t see the forest for the trees anymore or to those people who simply want a brief [...]

What’s the Minbar doing in Moscow? (Part 3)

Posted: 13th July 2010 by Joas Wagemakers in Chechnya, Ideological trends, North Caucasus, Russia, terrorism
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In the previous two parts of this short series (here and here), we saw that the Jordanian radical ideologue Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi and his website, Minbar al-Tawhid wa-l-Jihad, have been closely involved in efforts to support the mujahidun in the Caucasus by offering advice, translating books into Russian and encouraging and praising their efforts. We [...]

What’s the Minbar doing in Moscow? (part 2)

Posted: 3rd June 2010 by Joas Wagemakers in Chechnya, Ideological trends, North Caucasus, Russia, terrorism
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In part 1 of this short series of posts, we saw that the Minbar al-Tawhid wa-l-Jihad website published a communique by the leader of the Islamic Emirate in the Caucasus, Dokku ‘Umarov, claiming responsibility for the attacks in Moscow on 29 March 2010. This was slightly odd since the Minbar mostly publishes books, articles and [...]

A Jihadi-Salafi Case against Hamas

Posted: 23rd March 2010 by Joas Wagemakers in Hamas, Ideological trends, Palestinian Territories, propaganda
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In the past few years, an increasing number of news items have focused on the clashes between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and more radical Jihadi-Salafi groups. (For a recent example, see here.) Analyses of these groups have mostly concentrated on their alleged ties with al-Qa‘ida and their criticism of Hamas as being soft (see [...]

Is RAND in Bed with Extreme Takfiris?

Posted: 22nd February 2010 by Joas Wagemakers in Conspiracy Theories, Ideological trends, Jordan, propaganda, Western Analysts
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As regular readers of jihadi literature know, the RAND Corporation is no friend of al-Qa‘ida. Supporters of the latter have a tendency to blame RAND for trying to destroy them and the rest of the world’s Muslims into the bargain. Although RAND is not alone in being perceived by jihadis as an almost conspiratorial observer [...]

Article on Ideological Hybridization

Posted: 18th November 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Ideological trends, Motivations, Strategy
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I feel bad posting so many secondary sources and even worse plugging my own stuff, but I hope you will agree that this article is quite relevant to the issues Jihadica was set up to cover.