• Technology and the Internet

    Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev: The terrorists next door?

    by  • April 29, 2013 • Featured, Immigration and Integration, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Issues in Politics, Mosques and Community Centers, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, Radicalization, Security and Counterterrorism, Special Coverage, Technology and the Internet, United States, Youth and Pop Culture

    GEORGETOWN/ ON FAITH | The bombings at the Boston Marathon brings homegrown terrorism back into the spotlight. Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were born in Russia, but, as President Obama recently, “Why did these young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities resort to such violence?” Several decades of...

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    Weather reporter apologizes to Muslims

    by  • April 29, 2013 • Belgium, Discrimination and Xenophobia, Public Opinion and Islam in the Media, Technology and the Internet

    28.04.2013 Oumma Popular Belgian weather reporter, Luc Trellemans, of the national broadcaster RTL Belgium publically apologized to the country’s Muslim community after having expressed Islamophobic views on his Facebook page. The reporter accused Muslims of ‘mocking our (Belgian) customs’ on his Facebook wall and was met, as a result, with a torrent of outrage...

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    Two people arrested in Spain for presumed connection to Al-Qaeda

    by  • April 29, 2013 • Radicalization, Security and Counterterrorism, Spain, Technology and the Internet

    Two men have been arrested this morning in Zaragoza and Murcia for being allegedly linked to Al Qaeda, as part of an operation ordered by the National Court. The two suspected terrorists detained are Nou Mediouni, of Algerian origin, and held in Zaragoza, and Hassan El Jaaouani, of Moroccan origin, and arrested in Murcia....

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    UCIDCE recognizes the presence of takfiris in Ceuta

    by  • April 29, 2013 • Radicalization, Security and Counterterrorism, Spain, Technology and the Internet

    14 April 2013 The president of the Union of Islamic Communities in Ceuta (UCIDCE), the organization that brings together more than 90 percent of the fifty Muslim entities legally registered as such in Ceuta, Laarbi Maateis, acknowledged the presence in the autonomous city of ” five or six “militants of the radical group Takfir...

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