Terror’s Cyber Avatar: To Take Down Jihadi Sites Or Mine Them For Intelligence Is The Dilemma, War on Terror, NewAgeIslam.com

War on Terror

Terror’s Cyber Avatar: To Take Down Jihadi Sites Or Mine Them For Intelligence Is The Dilemma

By Sudeep Paul

Jan 13, 2010

Tracking jihad online will occupy the global war on terror, and undoubtedly no state administration has the time and human resources for such painstaking scrutiny of chatters across the globe in real time. Thus private trackers — like cyber-terror consultant Evan Kohlmann or the controversial Aaron Weisburd, founder of anti-jihadi watchdog Internet Haganah — will continue to be valuable intelligence sources. Incidentally, both Kohlmann and Weisburd were tracking “Irhabi 007”, perhaps the most phenomenal independent Internet jihadi public relations campaigner ever, who disappeared from the Web when a 22-year-old Moroccan, Younis Tsouli, was arrested in West London in late 2005 on a tip-off from Bosnia.

After land, sea, air and space, cyberspace is the fifth dimension of war. Its democratisation and sophisticated, but available, software have significantly enhanced jihadists’ reach and encryption capabilities. Forget the British campus, cyberspace — already the primary recruiting ground for global jihad — may soon morph into a real (certainly not virtual) battlefield, where we’ve to worry about much more than “talent spotter” Anglophone Internet imams like Anwar

al-Awlaki reductively simplifying complex theology into radical ideology and offering signposts to Al Qaeda for potential recruits.

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City madrasa keeps purdah to ‘part’ it, and educate girls, Islamic Culture, NewAgeIslam.com

Islamic Culture

City madrasa keeps purdah to ‘part’ it, and educate girls

By Preeti Jha

Posted online: Sunday, August 03, 2008

Academics researching JBI and other such madrasas acknowledge that they open up opportunities for Muslim girls whose parents are discouraged by existing educational institutes, but at the same time stress the importance of improving the quality of education and widening access to opportunities.

Based on his 2006 study of madrasas, which included JBI, Prof S M Sajid of Jamia’s Department of Social Work says: “My conclusions pointed to the importance of building the capacity of teachers in madrasas — they are not all sufficiently trained. This would significantly improve the quality of education and provide a benchmark for teaching standards.”

Dr Sushma Jaireth, a reader in Department of Women’s Studies at NCERT, is researching madrasas from a gender perspective. She says: “Madrasas certainly improve literacy and provide learning opportunities for Muslim girls. But while the girls are empowered about their religion, they are very isolated from the rest of the world. For wider empowerment in their communities it would be a good idea to open up other subjects and career opportunities.”

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