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The above header was created for me by the cartoonist, Abdul Arts (see cartoon below), a Somali refugee in Egypt. He knows something about the topic of this blog as his brother, the spokesman for the mayor of Mogadishu, was blown up by extremists in late December.
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About me
In fall 2007, I started working for the Kabul Center for Strategic Studies, a think tank founded by Afghans based in Kabul, Afghanistan, to build Afghan policy research expertise.
In 2006 Palgrave published a book I cowrote, "Jihad and International Security," with Jalil Roshandel.
Now I'm watching what I see to be the last gasp of a nonviable movement: militant, insurgent jihadism. This movement has killed many more Muslims than polytheists, infidels, or non-Muslims. It has also done more to damage the image of Islam than any other force in 1400 years of Islamic history.
In 2006 Palgrave published a book I cowrote, "Jihad and International Security," with Jalil Roshandel.
Now I'm watching what I see to be the last gasp of a nonviable movement: militant, insurgent jihadism. This movement has killed many more Muslims than polytheists, infidels, or non-Muslims. It has also done more to damage the image of Islam than any other force in 1400 years of Islamic history.
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"Prior to 9/11, who in the modern West ever worried about Islam? The jihadists have succeeded in casting suspicion on an entire religion, a substantial percentage of the world’s population, and centuries of Islamic history, in addition to all the widows and orphans they have created.
"It is unfortunate that Muslims who don’t terrorize people can’t command headlines. But that’s the way the media operates, if it bleeds it leads."
Me, Sharon Chadha, in an interview by Pooja at Instablogs.
"It is unfortunate that Muslims who don’t terrorize people can’t command headlines. But that’s the way the media operates, if it bleeds it leads."
Me, Sharon Chadha, in an interview by Pooja at Instablogs.
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What do the experts think about Jihad and International Security?
Bruce Lawrence, Professor of Islamic Studies, Director, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University
The authors of this welcome volume ask the hard questions about the ideology motivating global jihadists; they also provide some balanced and sensible policy recommendations. Both for its overview and its practicality, this book will stand apart from others. It deserves a wide readership, not just in government circles, but for all those concerned to understand how the war on terror is to be fought and won.
Michael Rubin, Editor, Middle East Quarterly
Jalil Roshandel and Sharon Chadha have written the definitive account of Jihadism. With clarity, breadth, and depth, they delve into the men, money, and ideas which support this lethal phenomenon in the Middle East and around the world. Jihad and International Security should be a must-read for policymakers, journalists, and anyone wanting to understand the roots, ideology, and tactics of what is today perhaps the West's greatest challenge.
Daniel Pipes, Director, Middle East Forum
In a spare and focused analysis, Roshandel and Chadha explain the where-what-how-and-who of jihad, the concept that inspires Islamist violence. They convincingly trace its intellectual origins and survey its current manifestations, and conclude with smart insights for countering this worldwide scourge.
Steven Spiegel, Director, Middle East Regional Security Program, Burkle Center, UCLA
Roshandel and Chadha have written a tough, hard nosed primer on al Qaeda and the global jihad movement. They provide a basic introduction to the network's history, actions, tactics, organization, and financing, as well as the methods that have been used to fight it. They also review al Qaeda's statements, ideology, philosophy, and interpretation of Islam.
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- Looks like now there is a full-blown insurgency ra...
- Swat Valley tea
- Shy girl from Swat
- Man from Swat
- The girls from Swat
- It can't be just coincidence that wherever Islamic...
- On the American conservative mindset you think you...
- Are Algerian "jihadists" just in it for the money?
- Justice a la Beijing
- The torture news that the NYT sees fit to print
- Modern Saudi design?
- Traditional Saudi fashion
- Saudi fashion designer
- More evidence fashionistas herald freedom
- Hell on earth: Being a refugee in an Arab state
- Torture Al Qaeda style - and if you think the U.S....
- Do we need to stop Iran from building a bomb?
- Michael Yon: It's not about Sunnis versus Shia in ...
- Berber
- Amman, Jordan
- NRO: "Cultural changes are afoot" in the Middle East?
- Hazara niqab
- Syria: Is Zawahiri trying to blowback the jihad to...
- Another Sunni province in Iraq turning against Al ...
- 40 years after Israel's victory in the Six Day War...
- Iraqi
- Memorial Day Tribute to Immigrants in the U.S. Mil...
- Lance Corporal Christopher Dyer
- USMC Cpl. Jason Dunham
- Memorial Day Tribute
- Post-jihad Algeria: The women seem to be taking over
- Peace from Malaysia
- On the media's role in the war on terror
- When it's Al Qaeda who is doing the torture it doe...
- Amnesty International's dimming halo
- Torture al Qaeda style
- Trapped in hell, I mean the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Now that Sadr's back in Iraq do you suppose the Ma...
- Elvis confirmed to be in Najaf
- Elvis spotted in Najaf
- One Muslim's prescription for Islamophobia
- A mosque in Rome so why not a church in Mecca?
- Threatened by a Los Angeles-based terror cell?
- In Los Angeles, was this a terror cell bent on gen...
- Poppies
- Helmand, Afghanistan
- Remember this self-portrait of the Taliban?
- PBS' Enterprising Ideas: Can for-profit health-car...
- U.S. deaths in War on Terror compared to peacetime...
- Bad news for the Taliban, but good news for the lo...
- Saudi newspaper publishes fatwa authorizing killin...
- Muslims: by far the most frequent target of today'...
- More Hazara kids
- Hazara girl
- Chosing between America and Al Qaeda
- Is this why there are so many Iraqi refugees abroad?
- Chechen Muslims
- Pakistan: Where liberals want a crackdown
- So this is Al Qaeda's new refuge?
- Sahel mosque
- More "Islamic militants" under attack in the Levant
- France's new foreign minister
- What is jihadism? Where is al Qaeda going?
- Niger
- Chad
- Mali
- Mali mosque
- Mali
- Mali
- Al Qaeda moving into sub-Saharan Africa?
- Missing American soldier in Iraq
- Tajikistan
- Hello from the Silk Road
- Hello from the Silk Road
- Will terrorism destroy the modern world?
- The Orthodox weren't the only Russians to have bee...
- More evidence that Al Qaeda is losing its base in ...
- Russian legacy restored today
- Cathedral Square, Kremlin, Moscow
- Reporting from Moscow: Russian nationalism resurging
- Samarkand, Uzbekistan
- Are the rules of war going to unmake the modern wo...
- Highlights from the trial of "Chemical Ali" you pr...
- Kazakh oil baron?
- Kazakhstan
- The booming oil economy in Kazakhstan
- The massive migration of Central Asian Muslims
- Gaza City
- Palestinians once again blowing an opportunity for...
- So this is "extensive torture" American style?
- Afghan refugee, Peshawar
- Peshawar, Pakistan
- Would you be considered normal in Pakistan?
- Dagestan, Russia
- Moscow versus Washington vis-a-vis the Islamic world
- Islam in the Russian arctic
- Tatarstan, Russia
- Islam in Russia
- The dangers in pulling out of Iraq
- Moscow's Red Square
- Genocidal axe murderer - a.k.a. Taliban commander ...
- Blogging now from Moscow, incidentally
- What is the real accounting on the Iraqi refugees?
- Top Iraqi Shia party declares need for Islamic rev...
- On what Bush is said to be reading
- Baghdad
- Operation Falconer, Iraq
- The art of falconry
- Falconry
- "The Falcon's Call"
- Friday prayers, China
- Late for Friday Prayer / Xian, China
- Friday prayers
- India?
- David Brooks explains Tony Blair
- Adventurer author, Lesley Blanch, R.I.P.
- "Don't miss out: become a suicide bomber in Algeri...
- India
- Nigeria
- Another win for the moderates
- Leading jihadist scholar clarifies rules of jihad:...
- Does "Bush's poodle" Blair regret sending British ...
- Were there really terrorists here?
- The Wall Street Journal weighs in on the Tony Blai...
- Abandoned church in Canada
- Gaza
- After 60 years, could the Palestinians finally be ...
- The Serbian side of Kosovo
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Isfahan Mosque
Iran
Somali
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Somali despair
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Recent publications
- Interview in Farsi at Washington Prism on Jihad and International Security
- Jihad and International Security (Palgrave, 2006)
- Interview on Jihad and International Security
- The Iran-Al Qa'ida Link
- What is al-Qaeda Management Doing in Iran?
- Iran's Hegemonic Aspirations Versus Strategic Realism
- CAIR: Islamists Fooling the Establishment
- CAIR's Hate Crimes Nonsense
- CAIR Founded by "Islamic Terrorists"?
- Telephoning the Enemy
- Lynne Stewart, Jihadi Lawyer
- George Soros Teaches the FBI Tolerance
- U.S.-Saudi Relations and the (irrelevant) Court of Public Opinion
UAE
More images from Iran
Iraq
Winning
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Ghadr night
Iran photo gallery
Saudi Arabian Images Gallery
Saudi girls
Singapore
Oman Images Gallery
Omani boys on holiday
Images from the United Arab Emirates
Indian
China
Friday prayers
Saudi boy
Peace from Malaysia
Tuareg
Berber
Yemen
Egypt
Europe
Sweden
Bosnian Muslims