Archive for 'Recruitment'
Swiss Minarets, Armenian Genocide and Academic Islamophobia
by Jeffry Halverson This morning I was forwarded an Op-Ed from the Chronicle of Higher Education written by Carlin Romano, a journalist and scholar of media theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Entitled “Of Minarets and Massacres,” the Op-Ed came across as an opportunistic diatribe against what Romano sees as the egregious hypocrisy of Muslims [...]
Posted: December 9th, 2009 under Analysis, Islam, Polarization, Recruitment.
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Culture Shock and Terrorist Recruitment
by Miriam Sobre-Denton As an American who has traveled overseas throughout my life, as well as a teacher of intercultural communication, I often wonder how it is that we don’t relate travel experiences and study abroad to the potential for loneliness and identity questions—and to the potential for association with radical groups. I remember traveling [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2008 under Counterterrorism, Recruitment, Sensemaking.
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