Comments on: Al-Maqdisi’s Online Library of Translated Jihadi Material

By: db

db — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:10:19 +0000

In the article “Operation Praline: The Realization of Al-Suri’s Nizam, la Tanzim?” Raffaello Pantucci writes that Younis Tsouli and Aabid Khan ran the Tibyan websites. But this were probably old websites which don’t exist anymore.
So Tsouli and Khan were supposable in this loosely-connected network, J. Wagemakers is writing about.
Here the excerpt of the article:

In addition, Tsouli’s computer provided police with a wealth of access to websites and password-protected areas. Tsouli, his conspirators and Khan shared managing rights to an extremist website called At-Tibyan….
I think, they even built jihadi-websites on their own. Read this good article from Pantucci.

By: Joas Wagemakers

Joas Wagemakers — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:23:43 +0000

I don’t know who runs Tibyan Publications. On their website (http://tibyan.wordpress.com/), they describe themselves as people who have studied all over the world. It is probably an international group of people because I know that, apart from their translations into English, they also do some work in Dutch. Some of it is translated from English, however, not from the original Arabic.
By the way, I know from a colleague of mine that among radical Muslims in the Netherlands, it’s especially the women who are involved in the translating business. It might very well be that individuals like them send their translations to Tibyan, which then distributes them. That would mean that Tibyan is more a loosely-connected network of like-minded people than a real organisation, which wouldn’t surprise me at all.

By: alle

alle — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:33:30 +0000

Who/what runs Tibyaan, exactly?

By: Joas Wagemakers

Joas Wagemakers — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:12:54 +0000

This website with translations of jihadi literature has actually been planned for quite some time. I’m surprised it didn’t appear any earlier. At the moment, it doesn’t seem to contain any material that hasn’t already been translated before by others, such as Tibyaan Publications. This implies that the people behind the website are not actively translating documents themselves or have other people do it for them, at least not yet. As long as that doesn’t happen, the translations website is unlikely ever to become as huge as the Arabic one, which I doubt will happen anyway.