At 12 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., the gallery will screen Eric Baudelaire's work Also Known
as Jihadi, which tracks a young man from his troubled home in the Parisian suburbs to joining ISIS in Syria.
Journeys psychological and literal are a theme, notably in Eric Baudelaire's new feature - length film, Also Known
As Jihadi (2017), an account of the radicalisation of a young Frenchman and his flight to Syria to join Islamic State.
BR Is it also the case in the new film, Also Known
As Jihadi, which appears in the Whitney Biennial this year?
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as Jihadi (Éric Baudelaire, 2017) Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?
24 Frames (Abbas Kiarostami, 2017) Also Known
as Jihadi (Eric Baudelaire, 2017) As Boas Maneiras (Good Manners, Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, 2017) Bye Bye Deutschland!
Examples abound: When ISIS released the video of journalist James Foley being beheaded, experts from all over the world tried to identify the masked terrorist known
as Jihadi John by analyzing the sound of his voice.
We have seen how people are prepared to immolate themselves for a cause, and many Protestant evangelicals were willing to make such a protest, their final statements were often as well prepared
as any jihadi.
The notorious cell, dubbed «The Beatles» and once headed by now - deceased SDGT Mohamed Emwazi (also known
as Jihadi John), is responsible for holding captive and beheading approximately two dozen hostages, including several Westerners.
The fellow who is billed
as Jihadi John number two has one eye disproportionately larger than the other.
He stands accused of helping orchestrate the gruesome beheading videos which became ISIS's hallmark, under the leadership of Mohammed Emwazi, the Londoner who came to be known
as Jihadi John.
Beyond Syria, France has expanded its counterterrorism operations throughout North Africa
as Jihadi groups have proliferated in the aftermath of the downfall of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Not exact matches
All of those countries are currently roiled by active terror elements such
as ISIS and al - Qaeda, yet few of them were involved in hundreds of domestic
jihadi plots since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal.
Jihadi John had been identified by the US military
as Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti - born British citizen.
Since taking the reins of the group in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of al - Qaida into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself
as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global
jihadi community.
ISIS also benefits from crowd - sourced efforts: loyalists serving
as ISIS poster - children in the news (e.g., «
Jihadi John», Sally Jones), remote sympathisers posting supportive messages on social media (such
as Shami Witness), and dedicated disseminators sharing links between content - hosting websites.
Speculation has been rife on social media
as to the identity of the murdering Daesh thug dubbed the «new
Jihadi John».
Those fatalities from terrorist attacks compiled by START include attacks perpetrated by a number of actors beyond just what they refer to
as «
jihadi - inspired extremists.»
If it is right to judge Islam
as a whole on the basis of the barbarism of
jihadi groups, how should we explain — and encourage — the actions of Kurdish Muslims and many other Muslims who are standing up to the jihadists and paying with their lives to protect Christian and Yazidi minorities in Iraq?
They declare
jihadi groups such
as the Kharijites to be terrorists, rebels, and heretics.
They should introspect and correct their weird ways of world view
as totalitarian exculusive
jihadi practice.
Internationally, while American - trained Mohammed bin Nayef was a favourite of the US and enjoyed close links with intelligence officials, who saw him
as a key figure in the fight against
Jihadi terrorism, any US opposition to his sudden fall from grace is extremely unlikely.
Osama bin Laden composed an ode to the destruction of the USS Cole in 2000, which he recited at his son's wedding, and a second example of his verse was discovered in an abandoned safe house in Kabul, having been distributed among trainee
jihadis as an exhortation to fight.
The rise of ISIS may give a fillip to the
jihadi forces in Kashmir and cross border terrorism
as there have been previous linkages between the group and Pakistani terrorists.
Michael Fallon has met around 75 MPs
as the Conservatives push for British military strikes against
jihadi targets in Syria.
Radical Islamists terrorize the world, and refugee flows have been pinpointed
as a source of
jihadis who have wreaked death across Europe.
Ian Goldin of the University of Oxford says the US and other rich countries fear Ebola will weaken their trading and strategic partners such
as India, Brazil — or Nigeria, also home to Africa's largest oil reserves, and violent Islamic
jihadis.
This explains why a disproportionate number of recent British
jihadis have come from the same places, such
as Portsmouth and Cardiff.
Young women on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, identified based on their Muslim last names, are lured to Syria to fight alongside the militants
as «
jihadi brides,» she said.
Just
as the UK Muslim establishment fails to address the needs of disaffected converts, so it will fail to bring returning
jihadis back into the fold.
ISIS brides have revealed the reality of being a wife in the caliphate, describing
jihadi speed - dating, women fighting in dormitories and religious Amsterdam is much younger than Dutch cities such
as Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht.
I think ten years ago things were different, but now the
Jihadi as threat, we must be careful.
Jakarta is an inordinately gossipy place, and word on the street had run that Jaffar was looking for a way to inject three thousand
jihadis into the Moluccas to begin cleansing them of their one million Indonesian Christians.And now, judging from the squatters on the decks of the Bukit Siguntang, the Laskar Jihad had found its opening — and,
as luck would have it, Norman and I had found the Jihad.