{"id":1641,"date":"2008-02-16T01:56:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T01:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-02-16T01:57:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T01:57:39","slug":"weekend_mustrea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1641","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Must-Read #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/kingsofwar.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/15\/the-effect-of-islamist-propaganda-on-british-muslims\/\" target=\"browser\">Kings of War<\/a>, a post about a UK study on media and Islamic radicalization. He discusses a paper by:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nicholas_O'Shaughnessy\">Nick O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/a>, Professor of Communication, Queen Mary University of London, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Politics-Propaganda-Weapons-Mass-Seduction\/dp\/0719068533\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1203074064&amp;sr=1-1\"><i>Politics and Propagnda: Weapons of Mass Seduction<\/i><\/a>. He presented the research he has done with colleagues Paul Baines (Cranfield University), Kevin Maloney and Barry Richards (Bournemouth University), and Sara Miller and Mark Gill (Ipsos MORI)  on <a href=\"http:\/\/kingsofwar.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/baines-rp-3-06.pdf\" title=\"The British Muslim Response to Islamist Video-Polemic\">The British Muslim Response to Islamist Video-Polemic<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and describes the paper<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>There is much talk and concern nowadays about the radicalization of Western Muslims which it is argued at least in part is <i>caused<\/i> by Islamist propaganda but there is not much empirical data in support (or otherwise) of this thesis. What O&#8217;Shaughnessy et al&#8217;s exploratory research suggests is that the linkage between cause (Islamist propaganda) and effect (radicalized Western Muslims) is weaker than is often thought. The truth is rather more alarming, in my view: some Western Muslims are self-radicalizing through a process of small-group socialization fed by images from the Western media which Islamist propaganda confirms and reinforces rather than initiates; meanwhile, a large number evince understanding and even sympathy for terrorist protagonists as victims, resorting to desperate measures out of frustration; and there is a growing belief in the fundamental Islamist proposition that there is a real war against Islam.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read and discuss. The implications are kind of significant, as I see them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the Western media radicalize Western Muslims?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}