by editor | May 21, 2012 | White Papers
by Inayah Rohmaniyah & Mark Woodward In public discourse about Islam, “Wahhabi” is usually a synonym for intolerance, misogyny, and extremism. Though this is sometimes true it is an over-generalization. In this paper we contrast two very different forms of Wahhabi...
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 | 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 | Oct 12, 2011 | Analysis, Complexity, Identification, Islam, Movements, Religion
by Jeffry R. Halverson I recently traveled to Tunisia where I visited the ancient holy city of Kairouan. Elections for the constituent assembly to produce a new Tunisian constitution are less than two weeks away and there is a lot of discussion taking place about the...
by lundry | Sep 26, 2011 | Analysis, Counterterrorism, Government, Image, Intelligence, Islam, Narrative, Religion, Southeast Asia, State Dept., Strategic Comm.
by Chris Lundry Last year, my colleagues Steven Corman, Jeffrey Halverson and I wrote a series of blog posts exploring Islamist reactions to anti-Islam and anti-Muslim events in the US, including the debate over the Park51 Islamic Center and an American pastor’s...