by lundry | Jul 27, 2012 | Analysis, Islam, Media, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Chris Lundry In a blog post last month, I noted how the Taliban have been inflating their counts of American casualties to a ridiculous degree. This month it approaches comedy. As reported by Indonesian extremist site ar Rahmah, in the period May 24 to June 23, the...
by halverson | Jul 25, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Egypt, Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Narrative
by Jeffry R. Halverson For the second time this year, remnants of the pro-Mubarak media in Egypt have caused a major stir in the international press and blogosphere by spreading false stories about alleged Islamist plans for Egypt. The latest claim is that the...
by G. Murphy Donovan | Jul 19, 2012 | Monitor
By: G. Murphy Donovan A provocative essay. What say you?
by editor | Jul 9, 2012 | COMOPS Journal, Publications
by Steven R. Corman The CSC has released a new white paper, entitled How Islamist Extremists Quote the Qur’an. The study is based on of over 1500 verse citations from over 2000 items of extremist propaganda collected as part of our extremist narrative project....
by editor | Jul 5, 2012 | Africa, Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Image, Islam
By Bennett Furlow and Jeffry Halverson Over the past week a militant Islamist group operating in Mali called Ansar Dine has destroyed a number of Sufi mausoleums and the legendary gate of a 600-year-old mosque in the fabled city of Timbuktu. Many news reports have...