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Abu Susu's Blog: Don't fall for the "Islamic State's" attempt at coining our opinion
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Observations on Politics, Revolutions and Terrorism. Don't fall for the "Islamic State's" attempt at coining our opinion. June, 23rd 2015. I have said it before, I will say it again: Let's try to not fall for the "Islamic State's" attempt at coining our opinion. Throwing someone off a high building? Stoning a woman to death? If we accept the IS's suggestion that it is, we are actually helping them in shaping their own image. But we shouldn't allow the IS to coin our opinions in such a way.
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Abu Susu's Blog: What to look for when looking at today's terror attacks
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Observations on Politics, Revolutions and Terrorism. What to look for when looking at today's terror attacks. June 26th, 2015 - This is going to be a brief blog post. Because we know way too little for any kind of sustainable analysis yet. But there are few points that can be made and which can help in directing and informing our understanding of what happened today. 1- The attack in Kuwait was an IS attack - and it may be connected to the attack in Tunisia. As Thomas Hegghammer and others have pointed o...
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Abu Susu's Blog: Why Jihadists can time-travel and we cannot
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Observations on Politics, Revolutions and Terrorism. Why Jihadists can time-travel and we cannot. March 31st, 2015 -. One could of course say that that's just fine: Aren't we, after all, talking about an ideology of murderers? Why would I want to understand their speeches? Why waste time to get into their brains? I disagree with that position. I believe it does make sense to try and understand the IS better. Not least of all, because it helps assessing what they might be up to. Jihadists don't fully shar...
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Abu Susu's Blog: Let's not follow the IS playbook
http://abususu.blogspot.com/2015/02/lets-not-follow-is-playbook.html
Observations on Politics, Revolutions and Terrorism. Let's not follow the IS playbook. Yes, the recently published "Islamic Stat" video of the burning to death of Jordanian fighter pilot Muaz al-Kawasbeh was horrific. It was very hard to watch. Just terrible. In their reporting, many media suggested that this was the most gruesome of its kind so far. CNN called it. The "most brutal yet"; German journalists found similar words. Sascha Lehnartz, for example, at. Decapitations that sometimes take minutes?
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Abu Susu's Blog: A few Thoughts on "Counter Narratives" and "Counter Messaging"
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Observations on Politics, Revolutions and Terrorism. A few Thoughts on "Counter Narratives" and "Counter Messaging". Your slate will be wiped clean; all crises are over; all conflicts from your past life are meaningless. You will be a new person, with a new identity. You are truly re-born. Or: Given a second chance. You have to understand this mechanism if you want to fight Jihadist ideology. My question is: Does the renewed talk about counter narratives and counter messaging take this into account?
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Abu Susu's Blog: "Europe only talks about radical Islam"
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Observations on Politics, Revolutions and Terrorism. Europe only talks about radical Islam". January 27th 2015 - In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, I interviewed Mustafa Ceric. For ZEIT ONLINE. Ceric is the former Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina and one of the most important Muslim scholars in Europe. A German version of this interview was published. On January, 14th. Or take Anders Breivik, for example. He killed over 70 people. He said he did it as a Christian. Did the media cal...Mustafa C...
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Abu Susu's Blog: Arrests in Oberursel
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Observations on Politics, Revolutions and Terrorism. April 30th, 2015 -. Today, police and the local prosecutor's office confirmed that they have arrested a couple under the suspicion that they had been "preparing for a severe crime intended to pose a threat to the state", which is a statutory offence often cited in terrorism related cases. Here is a short list of what we know and what we don't know. Community in the Frankfurt. That is believed to be functioning. The authorities have not commented on that.
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