On september 30, 2005, Carsten Juste, editor in chief of the Danish newspaperJyllands-Posten, wrote a seven-hundred-word editorial to explain why the newspaper was publishing twelve drawings of the ...Prophet Muhammad that day. The Muslims who publicly represent Islam are beset by a “sickly oversensitivity” to criticism, he wrote. “Any provocation against one of these self-important imams or mad mullahs is instantly interpreted as a provocation against the Prophet himself or the holy book, the Koran, and then trouble ensues. The Islamic spiritual leaders feel called upon to gripe and an army of intellectually underequipped followers respond and do what
Why did prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen stubbornly refuse to recognize the Muslim diplomats’ complaint and insist, for months, under building pressure, that there was nothing he could do? The ...escalation in February and March 2006, nearly six months after the cartoons were published inJyllands-Posten, came as a surprise in no small part because the extensive diplomatic activity that started in October 2005 and lasted through autumn was kept from the public. This became clear in early March 2006 when journalists fromPolitiken, a newspaper that had been critical of the government’s actions throughout the affair, obtained OIC secretary-general
The author "interviewed three hundred Muslim political and civic leaders in six countries (Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden)" (World Policy Journal) in order to find ...answers to the questions: "Have Europe's Muslims become apologists for extremism?...Who speaks for Europe's Muslims? And what do European Muslim leaders want, if not war with the West?"
This article argues that it is a fallacy to regard “social citizenship” as granting social rights equivalent to civil rights and suffrage. The argument is based partly upon a textual analysis showing ...that in formulating his influential “trinity” of citizenship, T. H. Marshall obfuscated differences between the distributional logic of redistributive policy and political and civil rights. The second part of the argument is based upon an empirical discussion of how social citizenship arguments have been applied to create comprehensive social reform. The Scandinavian welfare states play a central role in the discussion as examples of the inclu-sionary benefits of social citizenship. Three instances of welfare state expansion are discussed: the passage of legislation establishing flat-rate retirement benefits, the institution of supplementary earnings-related retirement benefits, and feminist mobilization in the 1980s for a “woman-friendly” welfare state. It is shown that claims to social citizenship are used by out-groups to demand inclusion in electoral coalitions aiming at welfare state expansion. The article concludes that social citizenship is inextricably linked to redistributive political conflict between in-groups and out-groups and depends upon state capacity to raise revenues and to police entitlement. A key difference between social rights and political and civil rights is that consumption of the former hinges on both the consent of the community and the willingness of others to pay for such consumption, while consumption of the latter does not impose direct costs upon others.
Law-enforcement investigations aimed at preventing attacks by violent extremists have become increasingly important for public safety. The problem is exacerbated by the massive data volumes that need ...to be scanned to identify complex behaviors of extremists and groups. Automated tools are required to extract information to respond queries from analysts, continually scan new information, integrate them with past events, and then alert about emerging threats. We address challenges in investigative pattern detection and develop an Investigative Pattern Detection Framework for Counterterrorism (INSPECT). The framework integrates numerous computing tools that include machine learning techniques to identify behavioral indicators and graph pattern matching techniques to detect risk profiles/groups. INSPECT also automates multiple tasks for large-scale mining of detailed forensic biographies, forming knowledge networks, and querying for behavioral indicators and radicalization trajectories. INSPECT targets human-in-the-loop mode of investigative search and has been validated and evaluated using an evolving dataset on domestic jihadism.
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