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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, 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
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
DotJournalism, Weblogs give voice to Iranian women, 30 July, 2002
Weblogs give voice to Iranian womenMSNBC, 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
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
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
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
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
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
ZD-Net, Crackdown: Are hackers terrorists? Will Knight, 20 February 2001
India Express, Rajasthan police to combat militants’ cyber-war, 19th Feb 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
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
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
First Monday, Michel Bauwens, Spirituality and Technology, 1996
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