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By utilizing social media, the organization has garnered a strong following and successfully recruited tens of thousands of followers from around the world. [1] [2] In response to its successful use of social media, many websites and social media platforms have banned accounts and removed content promoting the Islamic State from their platforms ...
In the disagreement over whether al-Qaeda's objectives are religious or political, Mark Sedgwick describes al-Qaeda's strategy as political in the immediate term but with ultimate aims that are religious. [190] On March 11, 2005, Al-Quds Al-Arabi published extracts from Saif al-Adel's document "Al Qaeda's Strategy to the Year 2020".
After the events of September 11, coordinated by the Islamic terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, the media's interest in Islam and the Muslim community has been significant but considered deeply problematic by some. Within minutes of planes crashing into the Twin Towers in New York, "Muslim" and "terrorism" had become inseparable.
As-Sahab Media (Arabic: السحاب, "The Cloud") is the official media wing of Al-Qaeda's core leadership based in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It produces media featuring original sermons and speeches by senior Al-Qaeda commanders as well as footage of international operations carried out by Al-Qaeda. [ 1 ]
In April 2019, Al-Furqan released a video Interviewing Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which is their last video as of today. Al-Furqan also produces media in the form of audio, which consists mostly of recordings of IS leaders and spokesmen giving speeches, as well as producing a single nasheed under their name called "Ya Allah Al-Jannah" (O Allah, (we ...
Terrorism and social media refers to the use of social media platforms to radicalize and recruit violent and non-violent extremists. According to some researchers the convenience, affordability, and broad reach of social media platforms such as YouTube , Facebook and Twitter , terrorist groups and individuals have increasingly used social media ...
After the killing of Al-Ayiri, Issa bin Saad Al-Awshan, and Mujab Al-Dosari, Al-Qaeda's media activity diminished through Sawt Al-Jihad magazine, until the magazine resumed publication under the supervision of Abdul Aziz Al-Taweelai Al-Anazi, and Al-Anazi was known as Al-Qaeda's Minister of Information for his electronic media activity under ...
Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة - al-Qā‘idah, "the foundation" or "the base") is the name given to an international alliance of militant Islamist organizations. . Originally built from the cadre of Saudi-funded Arab fighters who flocked to join the Mujahideen resistance movement against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, it seeks to establish, via military tactics, an Islamic ideology ...