by admin | May 23, 2012 | Afghanistan, Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Indonesia, Iran, Islam, Narrative, Obama, Religion, Southeast Asia, Strategic Comm.
by Chris Lundry Indonesian extremist site Prisoner of Joy recently posted the announcement by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan that operations against the United States and its allies will now be named Al Farooq Operations. From the post: The invaders should be made...
by admin | May 21, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Islam, Language, Publications, Religion, Southeast Asia
The CSC has released a new white paper by Inayah Rohmaniyah and Mark Woodward entitled Wahhabi Perspectives on Pluralism and Gender: A Saudi – Indonesian Contrast. The paper is available here and the executive summary follows: In public discourse about Islam,...
by admin | May 17, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Complexity, Counterterrorism, Islam, Military, Narrative, Politics, Publications, Religion, Sharia
by Jeffry R. Halverson The Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) has released a short monograph, De-Legitimizing al-Qaeda: A Jihad-Realist Approach, by sociologist Paul Kamolnick, a professor at Eastern Tennessee State University. Kamolnick criticizes current US efforts...
by admin | May 7, 2012 | Afghanistan, COMOPS Journal, Diplomacy, Government, Iran, Islam, Media, Movements, Politics, Religion
by Jeffry R. Halverson The Arab Spring showed the world how social media can help organize mass political dissent. In the cases of Tunisia and Egypt, single issues coalesced online into far broader and diverse campaigns that toppled ruling regimes. Recently, outside...
by admin | Apr 26, 2012 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Framing, Government, Indonesia, Military, Politics, Religion, Southeast Asia, Strategic Comm.
by Chris Lundry Indonesian extremists continue to portray Ambonese Christians as engaged in separatist rebellion against Indonesia, and a crusade against Muslims. This isn’t true, but raises the question: where on earth did they get this idea? The adage that if a lie...
by halverson | Jan 9, 2012 | Analysis, Egypt, Government, Identification, Islam, Language, Muslim Brotherhood, Politics, Religion, Sharia
by Jeffry R. Halverson* “If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honor has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity.” ...