The “Department of Documents and Research” from the “Jihadi Media Elite,” a jihadi media production entity, has recently announced its “Series for God and then for History” publications. These productions are intended to “document the important events” in the jihadi world “that are considered historical turning points in the Ummah’s path and in the circle [...]
Archive for the ‘Jihadi media’ Category
Information War in Gaza
Posted: 13th October 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Jihadi media, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian Territories1
While conducting some research today, I found that as of August 2009, the jihadi forum Tajdeed.org.uk is back. The website was one of the most prominent – if not the most prominent – jihadi discussion forum until it went down about a year and a half ago. The website’s administrator was and remains Muhammad al-Massari. [...]
Faloja and Jihadi Libraries
Posted: 16th September 2009 by Scott Sanford in Better Know a Forum, Jihadi mediaOn 14 September 2009, the Faloja Forums announced their return after they were knocked off the Internet three days previously. It seems the administrators have been researching methods to avoid permanent banishment from the Internet so the cat and mouse game will continue. Additionally, Boraq has opened a new library dedicated to preserving statements of [...]
Ikhlaas Speaks Out, but Questions Remain
Posted: 15th September 2009 by Scott Sanford in Better Know a Forum, Jihadi mediaThe Ikhaas forum that recently resurfaced just issued an explanation for its reappearance, only to close down again shortly afterwards. Site administrators claimed they kept the website down for the past year in order to “prevent the crusaders from entering and manipulating it.” They decided to go public again in commemoration of 9/11, but there was [...]
Al-Maqdisi’s Online Library of Translated Jihadi Material
Posted: 2nd August 2009 by Scott Sanford in Indoctrination, Jihadi Book Club, Jihadi media, propagandaOn 2 August 2009, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi announced the opening of an English version of his jihadi library. In the announcement, he requested that Falluja Forum members spread the word regarding his new website and to send him any trustworthy translations. The English website is similar to the Arabic site but it currently does not [...]
New Sada al-Jihad and Islamic Turkistan Journals
Posted: 28th July 2009 by Scott Sanford in Jihadi journals, Jihadi mediaA couple of Jihadi journals have been released recently. To get an idea of what they cover, I have roughly translated their tables of contents. The Global Islamic Media Front released the 35th volume of “Sada al-Jihad” or “Echo of Jihad.” The table of contents includes: “The Jihadi Movements and the Sweet Harvest – The [...]
Are the Uzbeks Going Global?
Posted: 17th June 2009 by Einar Wigen in Afghanistan, Germany, Jihadi media, Pakistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan[Editor’s note: I am thrilled to introduce Einar Wigen, author of the recent FFI report on the IJU, as a guest contributor. Einar interned at FFI last summer and is currently a a student fellow at the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI). A fluent Turkish speaker, Einar specialises in jihadism among the Turkics. Not [...]
Why is al-Sahab Called al-Sahab?
Posted: 15th June 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Bin Laden, Jihadi media, propagandaThis excellent question was raised in a comment to an earlier Jihadica piece. Since it probably interests a wider audience, I figured I should devote a separate post to it. Most readers probably know that the word sahab means “clouds” and that it emerged as the name of al-Qaida’s media production company around 2002. But [...]
Jihadi reactions to Obama
Posted: 4th June 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Arab media, Dreams, Egypt, Jihadi media, propaganda, Saudi Arabia, tactics, UncategorizedWe have heard Bin Ladin and Zawahiri’s comments, and Marc Lynch and others will tell us how the Arab mainstream reacted. But what are the grassroot jihadis saying about Obama’s Mideast tour in general and his Cairo speech in particular? Let me begin by lowering your expectations. For a start, we should not expect to [...]
Falluja Analytics
Posted: 11th May 2009 by Scott Sanford in Better Know a Forum, Iraq, Jihadi media, Recruitment, technology[Editor's note: I am pleased to introduce another new contributor, Scott Sanford, who is a graduate student at George Washington University specialising in jihadism in the levant. Scott has guest blogged for Jihadica in the past, but now he is joining us on a more regular basis.] “What is the Secret of the Falluja [...]