{"id":9962,"date":"2026-09-19T18:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9962"},"modified":"2026-09-22T18:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T17:32:16","slug":"al-qaeda-digital-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/09\/19\/al-qaeda-digital-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda \u2018Digital Ecosystem&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The al-Qaeda digital ecosystem has sustained itself online for decades. With the 25th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks this year, ISD set out to understand the current state of networked support for al-Qaeda across platforms, websites and messaging services.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have researched aspects of this myself in the past (check my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtuallyislamic.com\/\">back catalogue<\/a> > Books). There&#8217;s still a great deal of material out there, across platforms and contexts.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-bluesky wp-block-embed-bluesky\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mvshywrfvs2n\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiaoxnq2ozlgue354cmb55svtjkgsdgcrpifszifpdjlnvod542rxa\"><p lang=\"en\">\ud83e\uddf5<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mvshywrfvs2n?ref_src=embed\">2026-09-18T15:24:07.510Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The al-Qaeda digital ecosystem has sustained itself online for decades. With the 25th anniversary of the 9\/11 attacks this year, ISD set out to understand the current state of networked support for al-Qaeda across platforms, websites and messaging services.&#8221; I have researched aspects of this myself in the past (check my back catalogue > Books)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,187,5],"tags":[100,189,89],"class_list":["post-9962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-qaeda-2","category-radicalisation","category-research","tag-al-qaeda","tag-radicalisation","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962","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=9962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9964,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9962\/revisions\/9964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}