Podcast series covering various topics in security and technology
Episodes
Friday Aug 16, 2013
Episode 72-The Sunni Jihad in Syria
Friday Aug 16, 2013
Friday Aug 16, 2013
Thomas Hegghammer (@hegghammer), Aaron Zelin (@azelin), and I (@rejectionking) discuss the Sunni side of the Syrian Jihad. We discuss Qardawi's call to jihad and the theological underpinnings of that statement, foreign fighters in terms of numbers and motivations, the relationship of the Syrian jihad to the Sunni religious establishment in Saudi Arabia, and briefly comparing the jihad in Syria to previous contemporary jihads.
Thomas and Aaron have a good article in Foreign Affairs: "How Syria's Civil War Became a Holy Crusade"
Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
Episode 63- Shia Mobilization Frames and the War in Syria
Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
Christopher Anzalone (@ibnsiqilli) talks to me (@rejectionking) about his latest paper in the CTC: "Zaynab's Guardians: The Emergence of Shi'a Militias in Syria." In our discussion we talk about the media used by Shia militias to create mobilization frames including how religious imagery is meshed with political images, then we discuss how Sunni jihadists factor into these mobilization frames and end with a discussion on if the Syrian war can be thought of as a transnational "Shia Jihad."
Thursday Jul 18, 2013
Episode 54-Islamists and Salafi Jihadis during the Arab Spring
Thursday Jul 18, 2013
Thursday Jul 18, 2013
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross (@daveedGR), Will McCants (@will_mccants) and I (@rejectionking) discuss how Islamist movements like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the Ennahda Movement in Tunisia have fared during the Arab Spring.