Category: Syria

Jihadology Podcast: Jihadi Ideology/History with Nelly Lahoud

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

This episode features a discussion of jihadi primary sources from June, an interview with Nelly Lahoud, and a new segment: #SocialMedia.
This episode covers jihadi primary source releases related to:

  • Anti-Islamic State messages
  • IS state-building efforts
  • Caliphate declaration anniversary
  • Death of Abu Basir Nasir al-Wuhayshi
  • Spy games update

Nelly Lahoud is an Associate Professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Senior Associate at the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at West Point. She spoke to Aaron about a variety of topics related to jihadi ideology including:

  • The connection between the the anti-Crusader leader and military commander Nur al-Din al-Zinki and Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi
  • A five-year retrospective on her book The Jihadis’ Path to Self-Destruction
  • Nelly’s forthcoming research on the original leader of The Islamic State from 2006-2010, Abu ‘Umar al-Baghdadi

Segment start times: primary sources (2:10), the interview with Nelly (24:40), and #socialmedia (57:10).
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The show is produced by Karl Morand. If you have feedback you can email [email protected] or find us on Twitter: @JihadPod.
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New video message from The Islamic State: "And That He Will Surely Substitute For Them, After Their Fear, Security – Wilāyat al-Khayr"

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

The title of this video is in reference to Qur’anic verse 24:55. Here it is in full: “God has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them and that He will surely establish for them [therein] their religion which He has preferred for them and that He will surely substitute for them, after their fear, security, [for] they worship Me, not associating anything with Me. But whoever disbelieves after that – then those are the defiantly disobedient.”
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To inquire about a translation for this video message for a fee email: [email protected]