Counterterrorism Book Released

The Terrorism Research Center has released the seminal work on counterterrorism issues. Developed over the course of 10 years, the book “Counterterrorism: Bridging Operations and Theory, is meant to help facilitate the gulf between those engaging in applied aspects of counterterrorism–essentially early warning, pre-emption response, mitigation, and consequence management–and those who are studying the underlying components of terrorism itself–e.g. how to define it, its causation, radicalization processes, group evolutionary patterns, and incident lessons learned–in order to better understand this phenomena for counterterrorism research purposes. Often such a diverse grouping of professionals and scholars are not found together in a project such as this because their paths do not normally cross.With over fifty contributors to this work–including internationally recognized scholars.

Contributors incude:

• Dr. John Arquilla


• Jeffrey “Skunk” Baxter


• Matt Begert


• Dr. Stefan Brem


• Michael Brooks


• Dr. Robert J. Bunker


• Rick Y. Byrum


• Lisa J. Campbell


• Irina A. Chindea


• Dr. Martin van Creveld


• James P. Denney


• Matthew G. Devost


• T. Kessara Eldridge


• Adam Elkus


• Dr. Fadi Essmaeel


• Dr. Christopher Flaherty


• Phillip W. Fouts


• Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross


• Dr. Russell W. Glenn


• Scott Gerwehr


• Dr. Lester W. Grau


• Thomas Greco


• Dr. Daniel S. Gressang IV


• Dr. Rohan Gunaratna


• Dr. Thomas X. Hammes


• Jennifer (Demmert) Hardwick


• Daniel P. Heenan


• Dr. Brian K. Houghton


• Ali A. Jalali


• Brian Michael Jenkins


• Dr. Peter Katona


• Hal Kempfer


• Dr. David Kilcullen


• James T. Kirkhope


• Dr. Scott P. Layne


• Ernest (Ernie) J. Lorelli


• Dr. Prem Mahadevan


• Paul M. Maniscalco


• Kevin R. McCarthy


• Jason Pate


• William C. Patrick III


• Ralph Peters


• Dr. Raymond Picquet


• Caitlin Poling


• Byron Ramirez


• John Robb


• Dr. David Ronfeldt


• Mitchell D. Silber


• Dr. Joshua Sinai


• Dr. Erroll G. Southers


• Dr. John P. Sullivan


• Michael Tanji


• Dr. Gregory F. Treverton


• Donald E. Vandergriff


• G.I. Wilson

Date posted: February 25, 2015

Al-Shabaab threatens malls in Canada, UK, U.S. in new video

“Terror group Al-Shabaab has released a video calling for attacks on shopping malls in Canada, the UK and the United States.

In the propaganda video released Saturday, the al Qaeda-linked terror group talks about its September 2013 attack on a mall in Kenya. The brazen siege, which went on for days, left more than 60 people dead at an upscale mall in Nairobi.”

Source: Al-Shabaab threatens malls in Canada, UK, U.S. in new video – CNN.com

Date posted: February 22, 2015

Chapel Hill

Posted by Your Daily Muslim on February 11, 2015 in Uncategorized

A non-Muslim man identified as having anti-religious leanings, Craig Stephen Hicks, shot three Muslims to death in North Carolina.

Anyone who finds this behavior acceptable in any way needs to get their head checked. Violence against any group, or making threats thereof, is never the answer. Yes, ISIS is awful, but not all Muslims are ideologically aligned with ISIS. Not every Muslim is the type to end up on this site. Many Muslims have read YDM and expressed horror at the actions of their fellow believers.

Should we scrutinize Islamic dogmas and engage Muslims in discourse? Absolutely. Should we speak out against mosques that preach radicalism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, and homophobia? Definitely. Should we support Charlie Hebdo? 100%. But any act of violence is a stain upon the humanity we strive to uphold. If we wish to call ourselves moral, we must denounce Craig Stephen Hicks’ act and all others like it. We’d be hypocrites to oppose Islamic violence but turn a blind eye to our own.

I’ll conclude with a tweet from one of the victims, Deah Barakat. Hicks, this is the voice you silenced in your bigoted wrath. You will never be forgiven.

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