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 [...]
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A Jihadi-Salafi Case against Hamas
Posted: 23rd March 2010 by Joas Wagemakers in Hamas, Ideological trends, Palestinian Territories, propaganda8
New Reports
Posted: 4th March 2010 by Thomas Hegghammer in Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia, Western AnalystsMy brilliant friend and countryman Jacob Høigilt has just written an absolutely fascinating report on Islamism and Education in the Palestinian Territories. It’s fieldwork-based, rich and nuanced, and it undermines widespread assumptions about the link between Islamic education and militancy. While I am at it, I might as well mention my own completely unrelated CTC [...]
Magazines
Posted: 29th October 2009 by Thomas Hegghammer in Jihadi journals, Palestinian Territories, YemenAl-Qaida on the Arabian Peninsula has a published the eleventh issue of its magazine Sada al-Malahim. Naturally, Greg over at Waq al-Waq has it covered (see also here). The 36th issue of Sada al-Jihad is also out, and it is as chunky and well-produced as ever. The front page reads “Hamas continues its war on [...]
Coveters of Paradise
Posted: 19th October 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Jihadi media, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian Territories, propagandaIn the continuing salafi-jihadi media barrage against Hamas, the al-Sumud Media entity released its inaugural edition of the journal “Coveters of Paradise”. The cover is adorned with a photo of the battle-scarred Ibn Taymiya Mosque, which is where Hamas waged a battle against the salafi-jihadi group Jund Ansar Allah in August. The journal mainly consists [...]
Information War in Gaza
Posted: 13th October 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Jihadi media, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian TerritoriesThe “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 [...]
Media Incursion of Abu al-Nur al-Maqdisi
Posted: 10th October 2009 by Scott Sanford in Better Know a Forum, Hamas, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian Territories, propagandaThe Global Islamic Media Front, in cooperation with the Faloja Forums, has announced, “The Media Incursion of the Imam and Martyr Abu al-Nur al-Maqdisi.” It has five goals: Expose the truth about Hamas’s “crime” and “lies,” i.e. the recent attack on Jund Ansar Allah (JAA). Expose the truth about Hamas today and how it has [...]
Poser Salafi-Jihadis in Gaza?
Posted: 5th September 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Palestinian TerritoriesThe “Followers of Monotheism and Jihad” in Palestine released a statement on 31 August 2009 that lambasted Hamas for its narrow interests and the killing of Salafis (Part 1 and Part 2). They claimed that Hamas continues to arrest and harass members of the Salafi movement in Gaza and that “a long beard and Sunni [...]
How to Spot a Jihadi
Posted: 31st August 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Jihad culture, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian TerritoriesOn 30 August 2009, Jordanian journalist Murad Batal al-Shishani published a new article in al-Hayat where he asserts that an Islamist’s clothes are often political statements and can indicate his precise type of Islamist orientation. Al-Shishani states that during the 1980s, the Salafi style of “short clothing” (a likely reference to the ankle-high pants Salafis [...]
Jihadi Salafi but not al-Qaida
Posted: 25th August 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Jund Ansar Allah, Palestinian TerritoriesOn 24 August 2009, Falluja Forum member Abu Yahya al-Mu’tasim issued a statement titled “A Jund Ansar Allah Clarification Regarding the Events of Rafah.” He claimed the statement is Jund Ansar Allah’s (JAA) newest, but forum comments to the post expressed doubts over its authenticity, referring to the fact that Hamas arrested JAA’s normal Internet [...]
Jihadis Respond to Hamas Attack on Jund Ansar Allah
Posted: 20th August 2009 by Scott Sanford in Hamas, Palestinian TerritoriesThe forums are ablaze with postings regarding the 14 August 2009 Hamas attack on the Ibn Taymiya Mosque that Jund Ansar Allah (JAA), a group espousing Salafi-jihadi ideology, controlled. Hamas assaulted the mosque in response to JAA leader Abd al-Latif Musa, AKA Abu al-Nur al-Maqdisi, declaring an Islamic emirate in Gaza and general JAA criminal [...]