Comments on: The terrorism “experts” who are anything but http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/05/13/the_terrorism_experts_who_are_anything_but Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: George Carty http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/05/13/the_terrorism_experts_who_are_anything_but#comment-631 George Carty Thu, 15 May 2008 06:34:17 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2008/05/13/the_terrorism_experts_who_are_anything_but#comment-631 Is one reason why MEMRI's propaganda is so successful because MEMRI (being an organization run by Israel - a country whose native language is a Semitic one) can find people knowledgeable of Arabic much more easily than Western organizations? Another thing - what do you make of the suggestion that many of the roots of Islamist terrorism against the West are found within Western society itself? I've often read arguments to this effect on <i>spiked</i>... Is one reason why MEMRI’s propaganda is so successful because MEMRI (being an organization run by Israel - a country whose native language is a Semitic one) can find people knowledgeable of Arabic much more easily than Western organizations?

Another thing - what do you make of the suggestion that many of the roots of Islamist terrorism against the West are found within Western society itself? I’ve often read arguments to this effect on spiked…

]]> By: Robin Richardson http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2008/05/13/the_terrorism_experts_who_are_anything_but#comment-630 Robin Richardson Tue, 13 May 2008 21:31:21 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/ijwp/mt.php/2008/05/13/the_terrorism_experts_who_are_anything_but#comment-630 It will be tortuous, but one way ahead will be to set up procedures and structures of peer review, already well known, basically, in acedmeic cicles world wide It will be tortuous, but one way ahead will be to set up procedures and structures of peer review, already well known, basically, in acedmeic cicles world wide

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