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To recommend a news story for this page, please e-mail Gary Bunt. Related themes are discussed and developed in my research on Islam, Muslims and cyberspace, including my book Virtually Islamic. Some of the references to Islam and/or the Internet contained in these articles are quite subtle in nature, but nevertheless they caught my interest. External links are placed here for information purposes only, and their inclusion does not imply endorsement by this site's author. Some archive articles may require payment to access.

Newsweek, Al Qaeda's New Life, 23 December 2002

The Pluralism Project at the University of Michigan-Dearborn: World Religions in Metropolitan Detroit, December 2002 [link goes to Islam photos]. An article from the Detroit News about the project can be found here.

BBC Online, War on terror 'threatens' UK Muslims, 23 December 2002

AME Info, UAE to have its first batch of women e-commerce specialists by 2003..., 23 December 2002

Wired, Terrorists on the Net? Who Cares?, 20 December 2002

Sydney Morning Herald, Malaysian police arrest seven over internet terror rumours, 20 December 2002

ITN, Stars help Mandela fight Aids, 20 December 2002

News.com.au, Radicals recruit for jihad online, 19 December 2002

Newsweek, Khomeini’s Children, 23 December 2002

Washington Post, Preaching Democracy, Teaching Islam, Turkish Group Promotes Tolerance in Germany, but Skepticism Remains, 19 December 2002

Washington Post, 5 in Texas Jailed in Hamas Probe, 19 December 2002

Wired, One Man's Info War on al-Qaida, 18 December 2002

BBC Online, Al-Qaeda: War fought in the shadows, 17 December 2002

Associated Press, Islamic Group Shows Battle Videos on Web, 17 December 2002

Associated Press, Muslim hop-hop group raps for Allah, 16 December 2002

MSNBC/Newsweek, Muhammad Atta's Neighbours, 16 December 2002

Al-Ahram, Preacher on the run, 12-18 December 2002

The Observer, From schoolgirl Emma to Asma, the Syrian icon, 15 December 2002

The Register, US! .gov! shuts Saddam! sprog! Yahoo! account!, 12 December 2002

Daily Telegraph, Al-Qa'eda 'recruiting in Holland', 11 December 2002

Canton Rep, Rogue Web sites spread threats, 11 December 2002

BBC, Al-Qaeda 'forms Palestinian branch', 6 December 2002. Also see Washington Post/MSNBC, Al Qaeda Web site targets Israel, 6 December 2002

Associated Press/CT Now, Terror probe targets software company: Boston company's clients reportedly include goverment agencies, 6 December 2002 Also see MSNBC, Al-Qaida link eyed in Mass. raid, 6 December 2002

The Inquirer, Islamic fundamentalist hackers launch 100+Web attacks, 5 December 2002

Arab News, Coke hoax fizzles out, 5 December 2002

Outthere News, Al-Qaeda threatens wider war, [regularly updated resource]

Wired, An Inside Look at China Filters, 4 December 2002 [includes official Saudi Arabian feedback to the related Harvard Law School report on filtering. Also see MSNBC, How to be censored by China online, 4 December 2002

BBC, Youth shapes Iran's economy', 3 December 2002

Spiegel Online, Bekennerschreiben der Qaida, 3 December 2002

Wired, Doubt Cast on bin Laden Tape, 3 December 2002

Wired 'Religion & Science' edition, December 2002

Silicon.com/Yahoo News, Hamas declares a 'digital jihad', 28 November 2002

New California Media, Method to His Madness - Why Bush is Obsessed With Saddam, 27 Nov 2002

Arab News, Dr. Nahed Taher — challenging the status quo, 25 November 2002

Khilafah.com (reproducing article from The Australian), The objectives of those who work to establish Islam in the world, November 22 2002

iafrica, Bali blast mastermind is computer buff, November 22 2002

Haganah b'internet November 2002 relaunch on Israeli URL of the 'online self-defence force' focusing on Islamic activists.

CT Now, Stolen Credit Drives Web Network, November 17 2002

Gulf News, Al Maktoum Institute signs deal with Dubai Internet City, November 11 2002

Yahoo News, How Al Qaeda Put Internet In Service Of Global Jihad, November 11 2002

The Register, Want to know what people email to Saddam Hussein?, October 30, 2002

BBC, Islamic hackers step up attacks, October 29, 2002

Wired, Dear Saddam, How Can I Help? , October 29, 2002

NY Times, Online in Cairo, with News, Views and 'Fatwa Corner', October 28, 2002

Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney-based Islamic Web site to be taken down, October 18, 2002

Wired, Terror Turns Real for Horror Site, October 18, 2002

USA Today, Militants wire Web with links to jihad, October 7, 2002

BBC, Tunisia's dissidents battle cyber-police, September 6, 2002

Reuters/Express India, 9/11 mastermind invited to Cairo Islamic seminar, 2 September 2002

Wired, Did FBI Bungle E-Mail Evidence? 30 Aug 2002

Wired, How Al-Qaida Site Was Hijacked 20 Aug 2002

Washington Post, Sleuths Invade Military PCs With Ease, 20 Aug 2002

BBC News Online, Waiting for the fatwa, 15 August 2002

Associated Press/Mercury News, Briton cleared over `jihad' site, 10 August 2002

BBC News, Saudis block 2,000 websites, 31 July, 2002

Jonathan Zittrain* and Benjamin Edelman,Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard Law School, Documentation of Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia [report], July, 2002

DotJournalism, Weblogs give voice to Iranian women, 30 July, 2002

Weblogs give voice to Iranian women

MSNBC/Associated Press, Chance to track al-Qaida online lost? Maryland man hijacks Web site for FBI use, but agents pass, 30 July, 2002

London Review of Books, The Great Unleashing, [review of Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam] 25 July, 2002

MSNBC, U.S. woos Arabs with pop music, 24 July, 2002

Guardian, Terrorism.com, 17 July, 2002

BBC News, Hackers could face life in jail, 16 July 2002

BBC News, Hackers target web censorship, 15 July 2002

BBC News, Villagers try out net on wheels, 15 July 2002

Dawn, Afghan girls learning IT to help develop country, 10 July 2002

CNN, Iranian village gets wired for the Web, 6 July 2002

Web Host Industry Review, Militant Islamic Web Site Avoided Shutdown, 2 July 2002

Europemedia, Virtual museum to promote Islamic culture, 1 July 2002

Arab News, Coffee, tea or chat friend?, 27 June 2002

CNN, Al Qaeda: New bin Laden video on the way [refers to drasat.com and alneda.com], 25 June 2002

BBC News, Pro-Islamic hackers join forces, 19 June 2002

MSNBC/Newsweek, Hiding (and Seeking) Messages on the Web, 17 June 2002

McKenzie Institute, Bin Laden's Terror Networks in Europe, May 26 2002

Wired, "Jordan Punishes Net Critic", May 17, 2002

Wired, "Turkey passes strict Net Law", May 15, 2002

BBC, Teaching goes virtual in Pakistan, 13 May 2002

Sydney Morning Herald, Cyber jihad' warning to terror experts, 8 May 2002

IT-Director, The e-Jihad against Western Business, 5 April 2002

,vnunet.com, Surfers take spiritual quest online, 2 April 2002

New York Times, Terror's Confounding Online Trail, 28 March 2002

BBC News, Bahrain blocks opposition websites, 26 March 2002

New York Times, Al Qaeda's Grocery Lists and Manuals of Killing, 17 March 2002

vnu.net/IT Director, Bin Laden steps up holy war via email, 30 March 2002

MSNBC, How al-Qaida keeps in touch, March 6 2002

Guardian, Iran nets another revolt, 21 February 2002

Associated Press/The Star (Canada), Islamic militant admits emailing Pearl messages, 21 February 2002

BBC, Tracing the kidnappers' e-mails, February 8, 2002

Wired/Associated Press, Talib's Anti-American E-Mails, February 7, 2002

New York Times, Hot-Synching With a Heavenly Presence, February 7, 2002

Salon, The Encrypted Jihad, February 4, 2002

Straits Times, New proof shows link to Al-Qaeda, 25 January 2002

Straits Times, Mosque raps Fateha for 'sign up for jihad' e-mail, 23 January 2002

MSNBC, E-mail ties Richard Reid to Pakistan, January 19, 2002

New York Times, Electronic Primer for an Afghan Language, January 7, 2002

MSNBC/Washington Post, Probe of Sept. 11 financing wraps up, January 7, 2002

Wired, Trolling the Web for Afghan Dead, 4 January 2002

MSNBC/Wall Street Journal, Computer in Kabul holds chilling memos, 31 December 2001

MSNBC/Associated Press, New technology unveils Arab views, 30 December 2001

The Register, How Carnivore Works, 19 December 2001

New Statesman, Mossad wants to hire new blood, 13th December 2001 [use site search engine to locate title]

AFP/Hindustan Times, Al-Qaeda will strike again: Islamic sites, 3th December 2001

The Register, US assumes global cyber-police authority, 27 November 2001

BBC, US shuts down Somalia internet, 23 November 2001

Al-Jazeera, Arab Media and the Information Age [book review, in Arabic], 21 November 2001

Wall Street Journal Online, Islamic Web Sites Draw Crowds To Details on Religion, Culture, November 21 2001 (interview with Gary Bunt)

New York Times, Companies Compete to Provide Saudi Internet Veil, November 19 2001

Wired, It's All Arabic-English to Him, November 12 2001

BBC News, Saudis pay to surf censored sites, 3 November, 2001

The Daily Star (Lebanon), Palestinians are taking the Intifada online, November 2 2001

The Register, Mideast 'cyberwar' veteran indicted, November 1 2001

Wired, Does Official Taliban Site Exist?, October 30 2001

SANS Institute, Hacktivism: Compromise Techniques Used by GFORCE-Pakistan, October 24 2001

BBC, Hacktivists take sides in war, 23 October, 2001

Salon.com, A thousand and one e-mails, October 12 2001

Agence France-Presse, Vigilante hackers find their own website hacked, October 12 2001

CNN, 'Muppet' producers miffed over Bert-bin Laden image

Jewish World Review, Crush American web sites of terror, October 11 2001

The Guardian, Battle Station, October 9 2001

Newsbytes, 'Terror Killers' Go On Site Defacement Spree, October 8 2001

The Register, iomart cashes in on WTC tragedy, October 11 2001

AlterNet, Bert Leaves Sesame Street for bin Laden?, October 11 2001

MSNBC, Dirty tricks of hunt for al-Qaida cash, October 8 2001

BBC, Islamic terror code 'breakthrough',October 5 2001

Le Monde Interactif, Des garde-fous contre la cybersurveillance,October 5 2001

MSNBC, U.K. shuts suspected terror Web site, October 4 2001

Le Monde Interactif, On assiste à l'émergence d'un "hacking" national, qui s'associe aux différentes formes de guerre que se livrent les Etats. October 5 2001

The Register, We've cracked into bin Laden's bank - UK hackers, October 1 2001

LA Times, The Terrorists are winning the cyber war, 21 September 2001

The Register, Hackers lash out at Islamic Usenet group, 19 September 2001

The Register, FBI condemns vigilante hacking, 19 September 2001

Spiegel Online, Deutsche Website rekrutiert Gotteskrieger, 19 September 2001

Spiegel Online, FBI-Steckbrief statt Taliban-Propaganda, 19 September 2001

The Mirror, Internet Threat: Web of Terror, 19 September 2001

NY Times, I.S.P.'s Curb Terrorist Postings and an Anti-Islamic Backlash, 18 September 2001

MSNBC, FBI: Beware ‘patriot’ hackers, 18 September 2001

ZD Net, Hackers strike at Islamic Web sites, 18 September 2001

La Liberte, L'Afghanistan serait le seul etat musulman, 18 September 2001

The Register, Bomb the ISPs - Daily Telegraph, 17 September 2001

E-Commerce, Hackers Mobilize for War against Islamic Web Sites, 17 September 2001

IslamOnline, IslamOnline Receives Terrorist Threat, 14 September 2001

IslamOnline, US Muslim Scholars Condemn Attacks, 14 September 2001

Cosmiverse, Did Echelon Overlook Terrorist Threat?, 14 September 2001

Newsweek, Did Encryption Empower These Terrorists?, 11 September 2001

MSNBC, Anti-Arab sentiment festers online, 11 September 2001

United Nations Development Programme, Making new technologies work for human development [Report], July 2001

Ananova, Cybersex addiction causing marital problems in Malaysia, 16 July 2001

AFP, Malaysian Mulim men not allowed to divorce via mobile phone, 14 July 2001

Ananova, Taliban 'ban the internet', 13 July 2001

Arab News, Zeba Haider, Net has changed our attitude towards life, 8 July 2001

Salon/AP, CIA says hackers move too fast, 21 June 2001 News

Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 29 May 2001, Islamic Internet article (refers to Virtually Islamic) in Arabic, PDF File requires Acrobat Reader

Yahoo/Reuters, Marty Logan, Malaysian State Ponders Curbs on Cyber Cafe Menu, 21 June 2001

Al Azhar's library to get wired up to the Internet Middle East Times/Islam for Today, 9 March 2001

IslamOnline, Banned Islamist Newspaper Goes Online, 26 February 2001

Guardian, Losing the Saudi cyberwar, Brian Whitaker, February 26, 2001

Al-Bab, Arab Media: Saudi Internet Rules, Council of Ministers Resolution, 12 February 2001, translated from Al-Watan newspaper 21/11/1421

ZD-Net, Crackdown: Are hackers terrorists? Will Knight, 20 February 2001

India Express, Rajasthan police to combat militants’ cyber-war, 19th Feb 2001   

Hindustan Times, What are Islamic fundamentalists doing in porn sites? The CIA tells you..., Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, February 18 2001

IslamOnline, U.S. Based Islamic Website Hacked, 16 February 2001

LA Times, Mark Fineman, Kuwaitis Are Facing a Conflict Between Morality and Freedom, 3 February 2001

eCountries, Simeon Kerr, "Online Trading Comes to Islam", 10 January 2001

MSNBC, Amy Tan, "Singapore mosques plug into Web", 7 January 2001

iDefense Intelligence Services, Special Report: Israeli-Palestinian Cyber Conflict, January 4, 2001

Business2.com, Emily Fitzloff, "Turkish Kids Arrested for Web Use", 9 January 2001

Newsbytes, Malaysia Takes Action on Anti-Islam Internet Surfers, 12 December 2000

Arab Media: the Internet

BBC News Online, Wired Up Ramadan, November 24, 2000

Thomas Greene, Cyberwar in the Middle East, 30 October 2000

Newsbytes, Palestine takes the Middle Eastern War Online, October 25, 2000

Daily Star, Lebanon. New battleground: resistance moves into cyberspace Israel’s supporters try to knock Hizbullah’s site offline, October 20, 2000

Guardian, Cyberspace frees Iran's rebel cleric, August 5, 2000

Reuters, Saudi Arabia Blocks Internet Users From Yahoo Clubs, August 13, 2000

Guardian, Saudis claim victory in war for control of web, Thursday May 11, 2000

BBC News, "Internet cafe opens in Baghdad", 27 July 2000

BBC News, "Iranian conservative slams Internet", 23 Jan 1999

BBC News, "Online Investing for Muslims", 27 Mar 2000

Wired, "Virtual Refuge for Gay Muslims", 8 May 2000

Wired, "Report: Mideast Misses the Net", 8 Jul 1999

NZZ, "Internet Cafés Instead of Hit Squads - A Fragile Peace in Southeast Turkey", 9 August 2000

Josef W. Meri, "Software and Technology Review: Multilingual Computing in Middle East Studies", Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 34 No. 1

First Monday, Michel Bauwens, Spirituality and Technology, 1996

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