by editor | Sep 10, 2010 | Analysis, Diplomacy, Framing, Government, Image, Islam, Media, Narrative, Obama, Religion, Sensemaking, State Dept., Strategic Comm.
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry This series has examined the reaction, mostly in mainstream news sources of foreign Muslim societies, to the recent surge in anti-Islam events in the United States. Part I focused on the Park51 (or Cordoba...
by editor | Sep 9, 2010 | Analysis, Framing, Image, Islam, Politics
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry So far in this series we have looked at two high-profile anti-Muslim incidents in the U.S. Part I focused on the Park51 project, the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. In part II we looked at the controversy...
by editor | Sep 8, 2010 | Analysis, Image, Indonesia, Islam, Media, Narrative, Politics, Religion, Southeast Asia
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry This is the second of a four-part series of posts on foreign reactions to recent anti-Muslim rhetoric in the U.S. In Part I we looked at the Park51 project, also known as the “Ground Zero Mosque,”...
by editor | Sep 7, 2010 | Analysis, Image, Islam, Media, Politics
by Steven R. Corman, Jeffry R. Halverson, and Chris Lundry Recent weeks have seen an uptick in anti-Muslim events and associated rhetoric in the U.S. Controversies include: The Park51 project in New York, popularly known as the “Ground Zero Mosque” The...
by halverson | Aug 18, 2010 | Analysis, Framing, Image, Islam, Narrative, Obama
by Jeffry R. Halverson In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Indian novelist and activist Arundhati Roy wrote an opinion piece in the British daily The Guardian, stating: [Bin Laden] has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by American...
by halverson | May 7, 2010 | Counterterrorism, Diplomacy, Government, Image, Islam, Media, Popular Culture, Religion, State Dept.
by Jeffry R. Halverson Apparently I wasn’t the only one thinking about the diplomatic potential of Muslim hip-hop when I posted a blog about it for COMOPS Journal back in September of 2009. Recently we heard from Tyson Amir, one of the Muslim artists that I featured...