{"id":8184,"date":"2025-03-03T12:11:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8184"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:11:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T12:11:51","slug":"is-resurgence-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/03\/03\/is-resurgence-25\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Islamic State\u2018 &#8216;Resurgence\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an important story, probably not the focus of headline writers at present due to other issues (cf White House) but nevertheless should be investigated further:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ctc.westpoint.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/CTC-SENTINEL-022025_cover-article.pdf\">Moustafa Ayad, Teenage Terrorists and the Digital Ecosystem of the Islamic State<br>February 2025, Volume 18, Issue 2<\/a> [links to PDF]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3ljbosc6ozk2s\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreib5mwpyhdioob54b6xmmutoz6odhhyuxavzhtxhsvg6r5dnuspzuu\"><p lang=\"en\">In between the headlines, this is an important story \u2026<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3ljbosc6ozk2s?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3ljbosc6ozk2s?ref_src=embed\">1 March 2025 at 00:41<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the conclusion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;\u2018The unofficial Islamic State outlet and group ecosystem continues to thrive on the internet, innovating new methods and tactics to \u2018return and expand.\u2019*  Platforms and governments have adapted, building the tools and teams to combat this threat, but their inability to keep pace with the digital landscape, amidst myriad of other threats appears to be allowing many of these newer, more resilient groups to thrive.&#8221; <\/em> * Citation: Patrick B. Johnston, Mona Alami, Colin P. Clarke, and Howard J. Shatz,  \u201cReturn and expand? The finances and prospects of the Islamic State after the Caliphate,\u201d RAND, August 8, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an important story, probably not the focus of headline writers at present due to other issues (cf White House) but nevertheless should be investigated further: Moustafa Ayad, Teenage Terrorists and the Digital Ecosystem of the Islamic StateFebruary 2025, Volume 18, Issue 2 [links to PDF] In between the headlines, this is an important&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,5],"tags":[183,189,89],"class_list":["post-8184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamic-state","category-research","tag-islamic-state","tag-radicalisation","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8185,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions\/8185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}