Some nights she was busy searching for baking recipes, on others she was downloading Pirates of the Caribbean, and every so often it was scores from the Ajax soccer team in the Netherlands she was checking. Such a digital footprint might be that of any young Belgian, but with one glaring difference: The woman to whom this digital record belongs was until recently a resident in Raqqa, and part of the so-called Islamic State. This is how American Website The Daily Beast started a long story talking about the hard disk of one of the Islamic State women’s laptops, reflecting the mindset of one European jihadist, and her finals days in the crumbling caliphate. The hard drive originally was taken by Ahrar al-Furat, a clandestine resistance group …show more content…
Instead, in the weeks leading up to her capture at the end of the summer, she frequently visits the Flemish language Wikipedia page for the war in Afghanistan and repeatedly watches YouTube videos of American AC 130 gunships battering suspected Taliban positions in Afghanistan. They almost serve as an attempt to re-confirm her radicalization, and re-justify her beliefs. The hard drive is loaded with more than a terabyte of pornography, there are regular visits to the pornographic site too. But despite watching these movies, she was also interested in listening to Jihadi scholars connected to Islamic State and Qaeda. She appears to remain in contact with Islamists back home in Belgium, unaffected by Facebook’s efforts to close down accounts used by the group, and exchanging messages with friends in Belgium until as late as Aug. 17, and she often visits Facebook community pages for the Tunisian and Moroccan communities in Belgium, pages that post on everything from Islamophobia to Eid holiday celebrations. Her Facebook account is now suspended, but friends with whom she exchanged messages, and whose profiles show evidence of sympathy to the Islamic State, remain
War reporting crashed into Megan Stack’s life almost like the war on terror crashed into America. She was vacationing in Paris on September 11, 2001. Within days, she received the call and was rushed onto an aircraft carrier to travel to Afghanistan to report about the war. “I wound up there by accident, rushed into foreign reporting by coincidence…” Stack wrote in Every Man in This Village is a Liar: An Education in War, a personal memoir of her reporting through the Middle East (2). She documents her experiences of the American-led invasion of Iraq & Afghanistan, while exploring conflicts in Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Libya. She works her way through strings of violence and terror that have tangled with US foreign policy.
For the first time, Kayla Mueller’s fellow captives spoke publicly about their time in ISIS captivity for “The Girl Left Behind” of ABC News. They shared how the 25-year-old humanitarian aid worker’s courage and selflessness inspired them.
Atwan and others who trenchantly talked about the position of the internet in al-Qaeda 's progression collects evidence of vast amounts of jihadist online activity to craft their case. Chat rooms, emails and Web sites all bristle with jihadist discussion, dissemination, and debate, providing resources vital to individuals studying al-Qaeda. However, the real centrality of such virtual movement to al-Qaeda and its acts of terrorism remains a relatively unexplored theory in these intellectual accounts of the internets
Islam Mitat met her first husband on a Muslim dating website -- then he took her to live in ISIS territory.
She is often a guest speaker to the United Nations on discussions of this topic. As stated in the "Youth Takeover" event "the terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born," the extremists were, and they are, afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women… Let us pick up our books and pens.
Based on the way Yasmeen dresses, in traditional, Muslim hijab and black, Islamic dress, the knowledge she is different than the dominant, American cultural and religious norms follows her everywhere (p. 76). In middle school, her fellow students called her “Terrorist” and
On August fourth, in Tampa Bay, Florida, a flamingo, affectionately named “Pinky” was forcefully taken from her enclosure at Busch Gardens, and slammed against the ground by an Orlando man with a history of senselessly murdering animals. Multiple news websites covered the traumatic incident, but two managed to stand out above the others: The Tampa Bay Times, and United Press International. However, only one presented the story effectively and accurately.
Mogahed embeds her argument by using ethos and introduces herself to the audience with the different classifications she has been labeled, some of which being an “oppressed brainwashed terrorist”(1).
According to these three media sources, which have different perspectives and approaches for the immigration ban, data visualization is important factor that could affect or change people’s thoughts about politic issues even orders from government authorities are reasonable or not. Many people called rednecks who are not interrogate President Trump’s declares about many issues in the United States, they tend to follow the right wing media sources which supports Trump’s executive orders in order to keep controversial issues current in the country. They are not actually showing accurate data about immigration statistics, as the source from Breitbart is based on a survey which is not stating who contributed or did the survey. On the other hand,
Sami Omar al-Hussayen was a seemingly normal doctoral student. He was living in Moscow, Idaho, working on a degree in computer science. He enjoyed his family life, with his wife and three sons. He was a leader among the Muslim students, and he decried what occurred in the name of Islam on 9/11. This idealic life, however, came to and end when, to the shock of even his neighbors who considered him to be a gentle and upstanding man, al-Hussayen was accused of providing “material support to terrorists” (Herman, 2011, p. 23). Al-Hussayen volunteered to be a webmaster for the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), and was found to have posted militant ideas on the website, as well as routing, to the organization, “thousands of dollars he
Over the past year or two, newspapers, radio stations, and news broadcasts have been covering the rapid ascent of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS. But they have spread far beyond those material boundaries, reaching into the minds and homes of young people across the globe. These young people are led to believe that ISIS is saving the world, not harming it and that they must partake in the fight for religious dictatorship. They are instructed over the internet to perform acts of terrorism in their own country, known as domestic terrorism. Due to the dramatic increase in terrorist activity
That call to action can come in many forms of media and to a global audience. “Terrorist recruitment videos, often released online, have been tailored to appeal to various audiences. A propaganda video, which can still be watched on YouTube of captured U.S. soldier, Bowe R. Bergdahl, compares what seems to be his good treatment under al-Qaeda, to those of U.S.-run prisoner of war camps” (Philipp).
Unlike other terrorists groups whose main purpose is to enforce terrorism around the world, ISIS’ brutal strategies are how they defend their beliefs and protect their land (Chavez). ISIS has been able to obtain a majority of their land even with U.S. led coalition strikes and ground operations; they control much of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin, northern central Iraq, and northern Syria and seek to control every aspect of their land in each city and town, including essential roads, oil fields, and military facilities (BBC). “In March [of] 2015, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross [estimated there to be] more than 10 million people [living under ISIS control]” (BBC). Inside areas where ISIS imposes its austere rendition of Sharia, another way to say the “framework” of Islam, women wear full veils, public beheadings are a daily routine, and those who refuse this way of life are forced to supply the government with a certain tax, convert, or choose death
“The Secret History of ISIS” demonstrates how different social, economic, and political problems in different countries came together in a coincidence and have led to a catastrophe.
It is important that we understand why terrorists have turned to social media to spread fear along with recruiting members and supporters. Research has shown that propaganda videos containing terrorist-