As Gladwell so eloquently put social media “makes it easier for activists to express themselves, and harder for that expression to have any impact” (9).…
And that is why the counterterrorism and counterinsurgency strategies that greatly diminished the threat from al Qaeda will not work against isis." b. The information the author gives to support the main idea is that ISIS has 3,000 fighters, holds territory in both Iraq and Syria, maintains extensive military capabilities, controls lines of communication, commands infrastructure, funds itself, and engages in sophisticated military operations. These privileges are uncommon to other terrorist organizations, which usually have only dozens or hundreds of members, do not hold territory, and cannot directly confront military forces. 5.…
The Cold War and the current War on Terror have some similarities but many more differences. According to John Tirman professor MIT Center for International studies (par.2) “Mr. Bush signaled these comparisons in his speech before Congress nine days after the attacks, when he said the terrorists “follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history’s unmarked grave of discarded lies.” The Cold War was a contest between two superpowers, with many layers of conflicts, spying threats, arms race, proxy wars and military confrontations. The conflicts were manageable and many people were involved to diffuse the possible conflicts.…
Today, all types of social media is considered our “ lifestyle rule book ”. The article, How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life, displays how social media is our form of “religious leaders”. Take Justine Sacco for instance, on Twitter, she tweeted: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding.…
Having mentioned moral outrage as one of the four prongs in the radicalization by Sageman, Wiktorowicz explains how these tactics are exploited by radical non-violent Islamist organizations. Wiktorowicz explains that Islamist movement’s common outreach tactics are emphasizing “moral shock,” and manipulating the recipients’ outrage into participation with the movement (Wiktorowicz 21). For example, Al-Muhajiroun exhibited “outrageous posts and displays” that were specifically “designed to elicit ‘moral shock’ and outrage,” with the intention of securing “emotional responses” and “sympathy” with their cause (Wiktorowicz 68). Overlapping with Sageman’s second prong, interpreting moral outrage as a war on Islam, Wiktorowicz explains how Al-Muhajiroun played on “this fear by referring to American actions and the more general war on terror as a Christian Crusade against Islam” (Wiktorowicz 109). Aligned with Sageman’s fourth prong of radicalization, mobilization through networks,…
To Russel and Bailey’s surprise, these abductions have been going on for more than 20 years. In those years, more than 60,000 children were ripped away from their homes, consequently forced into imprisonment (Joseph Kony, 2014). The prevailing force of the Kony 2012 Movement tapping into the power of viral media to reach a global audience, analyzes the seemingly…
has ever dealt with, the reason why is because of their creative recruiting over social media and online messaging in an attempt to inspire people to turn on their nation, by doing so ISIS can recruit conveniently anywhere in the world. Scott Shane, a writer, claims that “Some merely express anger at American foreign policy or at what they see as mistreatment of Muslims overseas. Others go further, trying to reach Islamic State territory or plotting violence at home" (Scott). This quote explains how ISIS targets the recruits by striking them with persuasion and why they have a sense of hate towards the United States. The ones that find themselves in the thought of turning on their country start to plan violence and even attacks on their country.…
To influence diverse audiences, terrorist groups usually create propaganda that can be appealing to wide-ranging viewers. They also have advertisement that focuses on messages towards specific groups or individuals. Depending on the social media user, extremist groups have the ability to be broad or very specific in recruiting. This can rely on the type of comment a person leaves on videos, television shows, or other types of media propaganda.…
Based on these two articles, ISIS is using social media as any other person trying to promote their product or Facebook group would. The government I believe should really try to hack their accounts like citizens have been to reduce their recruiting. I think it’s terrible that if you live in America and hate this country so much that people will join the enemy.…
The terrorist understand what will cause the media to report on the next attack and how to manipulate popular perceptions of the targeted audience. (TRADOC, 2007, p. 2-4) The media plays a pivotal role in planning attacks with the terrorist organizations being able to use the media coverage and internet as propaganda to recruit new members all…
Lastly, I conclude with examples of how social media can influence homegrown radicalization and be a resource to…
Terrorist groups are modernizing and are taking advantage of social media platforms. This is adapting their recruitment process and giving them a larger population to get ahold of. “People don’t have to take the risk of joining a group that may have been infiltrated by law enforcement, of traveling to join a group. They can just get online, and through a Facebook group or Twitter, they can get radicalized”…
Boko Haram has though of different methods to persuade citizens to fall under their rule. They say “No more killing. Forgive us, and follow our doctrine” (31). They were telling the citizens that they were protecting them and they would kill no more, shortly after murdering thousands of innocent people. They would make people pray three times a day or they would murder them, saying that they were doing a “job of God” by killing people (35).…
1. Characterize the psychological profile of most Islamist terrorist recruits, what attracts them to particular groups, and to what extent they are clinically mentally ill. Without a regular supply of recruits, Islamist terrorism will extinct. As a result, Islamist terrorist continue to recruit and win the hearts and minds of potential Islamic converts. To a larger extent, terrorism is a natural and inevitable extension of fundamentalist Islamic faith. Islam tend to disassociate itself from Islamic terrorism, but Islamist terrorists drive their inspiration from the same religion.…
Firstly, per the START report one of the strength of Boko Haram comes from their ability to use ungoverned and isolated territories for strategic retreats for regrouping, Sambisa forest and unmonitored and porous boarders between Cameroon and Nigeria, Niger and chad are some of the isolated and ungoverned territories that Boko Haram have being using as strategic points to coordinate attacks and regroup. Part of what have being their strength. Robberies, extortions, kidnapping and looting part of Boko Haram method to gather resources and fund terror attacks, these activities have been successfully carried out by Boko Haram which have given them steady flow of money and resources needed to carry out operation which have strengthen the group capability to carry out multiple and sophisticated attacks.…