Lights, Camera, Jihad: Al-Shabaab’s Western Media Strategy
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In recent years, dozens of young Muslims from Britain, Europe, and North America have gone to Somalia to fight with the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab.
ICSR’s latest report – Lights, Camera, Jihad: Al-Shabaab’s Western Media Strategy – is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of how al-Shabaab is reaching out to Western audiences, using high quality videos, Twitter, and carefully crafted messages that resonate with the concerns of young Western Muslims.