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Type of site | Blog |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Robert Spencer |
| Created by | Robert Spencer and Hugh Fitzgerald |
| URL | jihadwatch |
| Registration | None |
| Launched | 23 September 2003 |
| Current status | Active |
Jihad Watch is an American far-right[4] Islamophobic[10] blog operated by Robert Spencer.[6][11][12][13] A project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, Jihad Watch is the most popular blog within the counter-jihad movement.[14]
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Organization
The site features commentary by multiple editors, and its most frequent editor is Robert Spencer.[15] It is a project of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.[14] Dhimmi Watch was a blog on the Jihad Watch site, also maintained by Spencer, focusing on alleged outrages by Muslims.[16]
Funding
The Horowitz Freedom Center has paid Spencer, as Jihad Watch's director, a $132,000 salary in 2010. Jihad Watch has also received funding from donors supporting the Israeli right,[15] and a variety of individuals and foundations, like Bradley Foundation and Joyce Chernick, wife of Aubrey Chernick.[17] Politico said that during 2008–2010, "the lion's share of the $920,000 it [David Horowitz Freedom Center] provided over the past three years to Jihad Watch came from [Joyce] Chernick".[17] In 2015, Jihad Watch received approximately $100,000 in revenue, with three quarters of that revenue coming from donations.[18]
Content and traffic
Articles begin with editorial commentary, then follow usually with a linked excerpt from a news website.
Jihad Watch is one of the world's most popular sites on the subject of terrorism, with more than 6,000 other sites being linked to it.[6] It is the most popular counter-jihad blog.[14]
Reception
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Jihad Watch has widely been described as an anti-Muslim blog.[6][11][12] Jihad Watch has been criticized for its portrayal of Islam as a totalitarian political doctrine.[11] The Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League consider Jihad Watch an active hate group due to its "extreme hostility toward Muslims."[18] Guardian writer Brian Whitaker described Jihad Watch as a "notoriously Islamophobic website",[19] while other critics such as Dinesh D'Souza,[20] Karen Armstrong and Cathy Young, pointed to what they see as "deliberate mischaracterizations" of Islam and Muslims by Spencer as inherently violent and therefore prone to terrorism.[13][21]
Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani Prime Minister, in her book Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, wrote that Spencer uses Jihad Watch to spread misinformation and hatred of Islam. She added that he presents a skewed, one-sided, and inflammatory story that only helps to sow the seed of civilizational conflict.[22]
Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi, wrote that "Most of the effective surveillance work tracking jihadi sites is being done not by the FBI or MI6, but by private groups. The best-known and most successful of those are [Internet] Haganah ... SITE [Institute] ... and Jihad Watch."[23]
The website was cited 64 times by Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, who committed the 2011 Norway attacks due to his belief that Muslim immigrants were a threat to Western culture.[24] Breivik later said that he was a neo-Nazi since the early 1990s, and only in later years disguised himself with and exploited counter-jihad writings.[25]
In 2017, Christine Douglass-Williams was terminated as a board member of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation for her writings on the blog.[26]
References
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- ^ Ebner, Julia (30 September 2017). The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism. Bloomsbury. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-78673-289-7. Retrieved 3 February 2021 – via Google Books.
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- ^ a b c d Bail, Christopher (2 August 2016). Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream. Princeton University Press. p. 84. ISBN 9780691173634. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
- ^ Gardell, Mattias (1 January 2014). "Crusader Dreams: Oslo 22/7, Islamophobia, and the Quest for a Monocultural Europe" (PDF). Terrorism and Political Violence. 26 (1). Taylor & Francis: 129–155. doi:10.1080/09546553.2014.849930. ISSN 0954-6553. S2CID 144489939. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ Sidahmed, Abdel Salam (29 June 2010). "'Jihadiology' and the problem of reaching a contemporary understanding of Jihad". In Rippin, Andrew; Ismael, Tareq Y. (eds.). Islam in the Eyes of the West: Images and Realities in an Age of Terror (PDF). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203854389. ISBN 978-1-136-99018-2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
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- Lytvynenko, Jane; Silverman, Craig (16 April 2019). "Here Are The Hoaxes And Misinformation About The Notre Dame Fire". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on 17 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- Palma, Bethania (6 April 2018). "FACT CHECK: Did a 'Muslima' Nurse Practitioner Decapitate Her Son Because of Her Religion?". Snopes. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- Esposito, John L. (2011). "Islamophobia and the Challenges of Pluralism in the 21st Century - Introduction" (PDF). Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
- Ismael, Tareq Y.; Rippin, Andrew, eds. (2010). Islam in the Eyes of the West: Images and Realities in an Age of Terror (PDF). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-415-56414-4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021. cited from Webb, E. (2012). "Review of Tareq Y. Ismael & Andrew Rippin (eds.), Islam in the Eyes of the West: Images and Realities in an Age of Terror". Contemporary Islam. 7 (3): 413–420. doi:10.1007/s11562-012-0196-9. S2CID 140511975.
- Varisco, D. M. (2009). "Muslims and the media in the blogosphere". Contemporary Islam. 4: 157–177. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.465.1191. doi:10.1007/s11562-009-0106-y. S2CID 143792038. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
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- Larsson, Göran (2014). "Islamophobia or Legitimate Concern? Contrasting Official and Populist Understanding of Opposition to Muslims". In Mays, Christin; Deland, Mats; Minkenberg, Michael (eds.). In the Tracks of Breivik: Far Right Networks in Northern and Eastern Europe. Vienna: Lit Verlag. pp. 155–66. ISBN 9783643905420. OCLC 881140905.
[Jihad Watch] can also be seen as a type of hub for the expression of anti-Muslim attitudes
- ^ a b Armstrong, Karen (27 April 2007). "Balancing the Prophet". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 12 September 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2008.
- ^ a b c Pertwee, Ed (10 December 2020). "Donald Trump, the anti-Muslim far right and the new conservative revolution". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 43 (16): 211–230. doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1749688. S2CID 218843237.
Among the [David Horowitz Freedom Center]'s many projects are Jihad Watch, the most popular counter-jihad blog; 'Discover the Networks', a database of the US Left; and FrontPage, an online magazine edited by Jamie Glazov, whose internet TV show, The Glazov Gang, broadcasts interviews with leading counter-jihad figures.
- ^ a b Barnard, Anne; Feuer, Alan (10 October 2010). "Outraged, And Outrageous". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 June 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
- ^ Oborne, Peter (7 July 2008). "The shameful Islamophobia at the heart of Britain's press". The Independent. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
- ^ a b Russonello, Giovanni; Vogel, Kenneth P. (5 September 2010) [first published 4 September 2010]. "Latest mosque issue: The money trail". Politico.Com. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ a b Angwin, Julia; Larson, Jeff; Varner, Madeleine; Kirchner, Lauren (19 August 2017). "Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate". ProPublica. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ Whitaker, Brian (7 February 2006). "Drawn conclusions". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ D'Souza, Dinesh (2 March 2007). "Letting Bin Laden Define Islam". Archived from the original on 4 March 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2008.
- ^ "The Jihad Against Muslims". 6 June 2006. Archived from the original on 13 February 2008. Retrieved 3 February 2008.
- ^ Benazir Bhutto, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West, Harper, 2008, pp. 245–6.
- ^ Atwan, Abdel Bari (2008). The secret history of al Qaeda – Google Books. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520255616. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
- ^ Shane, Scott (24 July 2011). "Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S." New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 June 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
- ^ "Breivik: - Jeg leste Hitlers Mein Kampf da jeg var 14 år". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). 16 March 2016.
- ^ "Race relations board member says she's been fired over writings about Islam". CBC News. 21 December 2017.
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