Archive for 'Media'
News from Indonesia: Basyir charged with supporting Aceh terrorist camp
by Chris Lundry Indonesian police have charged Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Basyir with supporting terrorism for his role in the the Jemaah Islamiyah training camp in Aceh. He has been accused of participating in planning and funding the project and ordering others to commit terrorist acts, and police reported finding progress reports and videos from [...]
Posted: August 25th, 2010 under Counterterrorism, Indonesia, Media, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized.
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Update from Indonesia and Singapore
by Chris Lundry While in Singapore for the ICA conference with colleagues from the CSC, interesting news kept coming in from Indonesia concerning its ongoing fight against terrorism. It was quite a contrast to what appeared to be the biggest story in Singapore: the conviction of a foreigner who spray-painted a train, a story that [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2010 under Indonesia, Islam, Media, Obama, Southeast Asia.
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Hip-Hop Ambassadors Wanted
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 in the blog, and he had some interesting [...]
Posted: May 7th, 2010 under Counterterrorism, Diplomacy, Government, Image, Islam, Media, Popular Culture, Religion, State Dept..
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Recent Events in Indonesia and the Philippines
Having recently returned from a brief (four-day!) trip to Indonesia and Singapore, I’ve been reminded of the value of simply being in a location with eyes and ears open in order to gain insight into current events. While in Indonesia, some interesting communication- and terrorism-related news emerged. Facebook has been gaining ground in Indonesia, and [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2010 under Indonesia, Media, Obama, Sharia, Southeast Asia, Uncategorized.
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How Natalie Portman and Johnny Depp Can Save the World
by Jeff Halverson In the war of ideas for the “hearts and minds” of the Muslim world, cultural diplomacy can go a long way. The US government may not be very popular abroad, but our cultural products certainly are. Many Muslims hate our policies, but they still love our movies, listen to our pop music, [...]
Posted: March 2nd, 2010 under Analysis, Counterterrorism, Diplomacy, Education, Image, Islam, Media, Popular Culture, State Dept., Strategic Comm..
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Why “Moderate Islam” is the Wrong Language
by Mark Woodward* The terminology used in English and other European languages to discuss Islam, and especially Muslim political movements, shifts constantly. There is a general consensus, shared by many in the Muslim world, that “radical” and “extremist” are appropriately characterize individuals and movements that advocate and/or employ violence to accomplish their political ends. Beyond [...]
Posted: December 12th, 2009 under Analysis, Image, Islam, Language, Media.
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Online Mobilization by Radical Groups
by Steven R. Corman I ran across an interesting research article in the most recent issue of the Journal of Communication entitled “‘Carrying online participation offline’–Mobilization by radical online groups and politically dissimilar offline ties.”* The study looks at neo-Nazis and radical environmentalists (NN/RE) in the West, but because it potentially sheds some light on [...]
Posted: November 7th, 2009 under Counterterrorism, Media, Research, Terrorism 2.0.
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The Afghanistan Narrative Gap and Its Consequences
by Bud Goodall One of the important challenges of President Obama’s administration is to sell the continuation of our “overseas contingency operation” (or perhaps FATAVE) in Afghanistan to an increasingly disenchanted audience at home and abroad. But there is a worrisome absence of a good narrative–a coherent collection of stories–about why we are there and [...]
Posted: October 7th, 2009 under Afghanistan, Defense Dept., Government, Media, Narrative, Obama, Politics, Strategic Comm..
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Getting to the Bottom of Explosive Rumors Concerning Noordin Top
by Chris Lundry Dwarfed by the stories of the earthquake tragedy in Padang, yesterday Indonesian media picked up a sensational statement issued at the Jakarta police headquarters. According to police spokesman Nanan Sukarna, police investigators have discovered evidence that the corpse of Jemaah Islamiyah’s Noordin Top showed signs of anal trauma consistent with sodomy, leading to speculation that [...]
Posted: October 1st, 2009 under Indonesia, Islam, Language, Media, Politics, Popular Culture, Southeast Asia.
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Politics and Women’s Headwear in Indonesia
by Chris Lundry Before last week’s bombings, Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, completed a presidential election. Similar to the 2004 election (which I monitored with the Carter Center), there was the requisite hand wringing in the Western media about the influence of Islamist parties such as the Prosperous Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, PKS) and the National [...]
Posted: July 21st, 2009 under Analysis, Indonesia, Islam, Media, Politics, Southeast Asia.
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