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“Adnani was very charismatic and the way he spoke influenced IS supporters very deeply. He is very much alive (today) with his speeches,“ former Turkish counter-terrorism police chief Ahmet S Yayla told Channel NewsAsia. As a testimony to Adnani’s potency, some 14 terror attacks took place during Ramadan in 2016 after his audio message. Amongst them were coordinated bomb attacks around Baghdad that killed 175, suicide bombings at Turkey’s Ataturk airport where 45 people died and an attack at Bangladesh’s Dhaka Holey Artisan Bakery, where 20 mostly foreign hostages were butchered to death. “Al Qaeda in the past also called upon Muslims to carry out homeland terror attacks during the holy month of Ramadan, claiming (that) to do so was a holy duty to cleanse and purify the soul,” said Yayla, who is currently adjunct professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University in the US. “What al Qaeda started with these calls for terror attacks in the West during Ramadan has now, with ISIS and their so-called 'Caliphate', been put on steroids and strengthened,” said Yayla. IS members in Telegram chatrooms and other social media accounts distributed Adnani’s 2016 Ramadan message two days before this year’s Ramadan started to encourage its members abroad to carry out attacks, said Yayla. Read more at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/terrorist-attacks-during-ramadan-stem-from-dead-is-spokesman-s-8915636

Commomeriation of Qahtaniyah bombings, 2020

This article was pulblished on August 14, 2020 by Dawood S. Ilyas. Although thirteen years have passed since the explosions in the Yazidi district of Al-Qahtaniyah, west of Nineveh governorate, Yazidi residents of Al-Qahtaniyah, who are now living in IDPs camps still, remember the day of August 14, 2007, when their regions witnessed the largest bloody explosions in Iraq after the 2003 USA invasion.

Abstract: This article discusses how the Shi’i Fatimi Ismaili Tayyabi Dawoodi Bohras commemorate the first ten days of Muharram, also known as Al Asharah al-Mubarakah in remembrance of the Azeem and unparalleled sacrifice of Moula Abi Abdillah Al Imam al-Husain Ibn Amir al-Mumineen Ali (as) at Karbala. Sayyid ash Shuhada Husain (as), his Ahl al-Bayt (as) and Ash’ab (ra) fought against the Zulm, injustice, and harassment committed by the Syrian emperor Yazid (L). Al Imam al-Husain (as) opposed and exposed him by sacrificing his life. The process of learning enriches the Aqidah and ‘ilm of the community members through Muharram Wa’az (sermons), which includes various topics of interest. It also informs us that this 1000-year-old legacy of the Shi’i Fatimi Ismaili Imams is continued with the same spirit by their Du’at, which refreshes the spiritual energies of the followers.

Counter Terrorism Trends and Analysis , 2016

In the first half of 2016, the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) dominated the global threat landscape by mounting attacks in North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus and Asia. At the forefront was IS’ spokesperson, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, who directed and inspired attacks worldwide, including those which took place during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. On 24 July 2016, a suicide bombing attack took place in the south German town of Ansbach. The attacker was a 27-year-old Syrian man who faced deportation to Bulgaria and who had detonated the device after being refused entry to a music festival. Investigations revealed that the suicide attacker had pledged allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a video found on his mobile phone. IS has since claimed responsibility for the attack. In May 2016, in an audio message purportedly from al-Adnani, the spokesman declared Ramadan a "month of conquest and jihad." He announced: "Make it, with God's permission, a month of pain for infidels everywhere" (Mowat 2016). The “Ramadan jihad” of IS killed at least 800, mostly Muslims, across five different continents (Drury 2016). Some of the attacks included those in Orlando (US), Nice (France), Bavaria (Germany), Istanbul (Turkey), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kabul (Afghanistan), Mindanao (Philippines), Puchong (Malaysia), Solo (Indonesia), Medina (Saudi Arabia), Lebanon, Iraq and Syria. The spate of IS attacks were most intense during the last week of Ramadan when IS carried out an attack on Istanbul Airport, killing 45 people, detonated a truck bomb in Karrada, in Baghdad, killing 290 people, and carried out a suicide bomb attack in the vicinity of the Prophet’s mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina, the second holiest site in Islam, after Makkah.

International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 2010

It is widely agreed that the events which took place on 11 September 2001 have played a large part in reshaping global imaginings about contemporary acts of terrorism and their Islamic perpetrators. Given this transformation in the understanding of terrorism and terrorists, our objective in this article is threefold. First we want to present a discussion of the roots of the kind of neo-liberal politics that has grown up alongside acts of terrorism and its global media coverage which has, we argue, resulted in a politics of fear that acts to legitimate ever-increasing legislative controls. In an attempt to reveal how discourse works to support such regulation, in the second part of this article we offer a qualitative analysis of newspaper articles from the UK about acts of terrorism that have taken place since the suicide bombings on the London transport system on 7 July 2005. Together with an analysis of the political speeches of Bush and Blair, we examine how far these discourses can be said to have reframed notions of inclusion/exclusion for Muslim populations. Finally we present a discussion of the consequences of such terrorist acts and their varied representations for the future of the British multicultural imaginary.

Open Democracy, 2005

2007

On 7 July 2005, three bombs exploded on London underground trains, with a fourth on a double-decker bus. Four British Muslims – Mohammed Siddique Khan (30 years), Shehzad Tanveer (22 years), Germaine Lindsay (19 years) and Hasib Mir Hussain (18 years) carried out the terrorist acts. Reports in the immediate aftermath confirmed that 52 people (including one Muslim girl, Shahara Akhtar Islam, 20 years) had been killed, and many more were injured. British Muslims claim the unacknowledged victims of this tragedy are the mainstream Muslim population who have borne the brunt of the repercussions and that, one year on, little has been done by the Blair government to combat the threat of terror or to build stronger bridges between the Muslim community and the wider British society (Chowdhury, 2006, p. 35). This paper examines in general terms what the print media in the UK say on the first anniversary of the 7/7 atrocity. It draws on four British broadsheets and four tabloids published on 7/7/2006. It is based on a snapshot analysis of the media’s reporting of the London bombings on the occasion of the first anniversary of the attack.

Nowadays, some Muslims celebrate Muharram not because it is the first month of the Islamic calendar but because it commemorates the tragic death of Husain ibn Ali, the grandson of Mohammad, in the 7th century. They are the Shi'i Muslims who constitute about 10-13% of the total Muslim population in the world. They share with a larger community of Muslims, especially Sunni Muslims, in their beliefs in the divine origin of the Qur'an, the prophethood of Mohammad, and the unity of God, Allah. So, they differ in their allegiance to particular members of Prophet Mohammad's family, whom they believe were his legal and spiritual successors. In particular, they emphasise the Prophet's daughter, Fatima; his son-in-law Ali, the first Imam; Ali's son, Hasan, the second Imam; and Hasan's brother Husain, the third Imam. Most Muslims generally accept that the Prophet was "ma 'sum," flawless, while Shi'i Muslims attribute this quality to all their Imams. Keywords: Shi'i Muslims, Rituals and Symbols, Martyrdom of Imam Husain, Battle of Karbala, The Day of Ashura, Memorial Services, Mourning Processions, Play, Flagellation.