The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center comments on the US Senate report we discussed here:
Violent Islamist Extremism, The Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat.
ITIC adds a discussion of some of the similarities and differences between al-Qaida's use of the Internet and Hamas and Hizballah. One thing the ITIC discussion does not mention is how the sites of al-Qaida, Hamas and Hizballah sit on a sort of continuum of interactivity, with the al-Qaida sites being almost entirely interactive and featuring much content provided by the rank and file, while Hizballah at the other extreme has almost no interactive sites. Hamas has a combination of interactive and non-interactive sites, and Hamas activists engage in a kind of "public diplomacy" on al-Qaida sites, challenging any attempt to criticize Hamas for not being sufficiently Islamist.
Posted on 16 July 2008 @ 15:29