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The aims of right-wing extremist music and the Salafi jihadist nasheeds are, among other things, to inspire the youth, reach out to a worldwide audience of potential sympathizers, and disseminate their absolutist worldview.
- Veronika Möller, Antonia Mischler
- 2020
- ISIL's "Quasi-Official Anthem" Is A Nasheed
- Nasheeds Are Widely Available Online
- No Possible Control Online
- Nasheeds Predate ISIL by Decades
- A Potential For radicalisation?
“There are nasheeds used by different Islamic groups who are engaged in battle, Sunni or Shia. But many new songs are produced by one of the most powerful actor on the battlefield: the Islamic State (also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant or ISIL) and its supporters,” Said tells euronews. Said published a research articlein 2012 ...
Away from the battlefields of the Middle East, nasheeds are also widely available online. Of course, there was “already a distribution before the Internet via song books, cassettes and videos but the internet worked as a catalyst,” Said tells euronews. It is “more than just a distributor. Users in online forums are engaged in discussions about the ...
Ubiquitous online, nasheed video music are at times banned from video-hosting platfroms, but “in most cases not because of the nasheeds but because of the footage,” Said, who wrote an upcoming book on ISIL,explains. “But you can still access nasheed videos on internet platforms quite easily. The songs have spread so far and there are so many that i...
Nasheeds actually predate Youtube, the Internet or ISIL by decades. The jihadist poetry comprised in the Islamist hymns can be, according to Said’s research, seen as an extension of an nineteenth century anti-colonial poetry style called qaseeda. However, the historical roots can be found in a more recent period: “many nasheeds used today in videos...
As a result of the spread of nasheeds online, jihadists are not the only ones who can access them. Jihad sympathizers too “can get in touch with this material easily because you will find many hardcore nasheeds not exclusively on jihadist websites but also on sites that claim to provide ‘Islamic nasheeds’,” Said writes. The extended reach for easil...
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- Thomas Seymat
Like nasheed and most of the political hymns, the jihadi hymn is a pre-composed fixed product. Jihadi hymns are marked–and recently also marketed–by a top-down process; only after the fixed product is offered to the public, individual choices of listening and reappropriation can start. 21
Nov 15, 2012 · This article deals with militant Islamist hymns (anasheed jihadiya; in the following simply referred to as nasheeds) as an expression of jihadist culture. In this context jihadism is regarded as a militant fraction within the Salafi movement, with which it shares goals but not means.
- Behnam Said
- 2012
Jun 9, 2020 · The jihadist nasheeds are not intended for lucrative profits in the same way that narco corridos seek to gain immense fame and fortune for a given band or singer. The jihadist nasheeds glorify jihad, the supposedly divinely sanctioned “just battle” of good against evil, as the IS interprets these attributes.
Jihadi anāshīd are sometimes conceptualised as ‘jihad-hymns’ in literature on jihadism (see e.g. Prucha 2018), but this reductionist view leaves out their substantial non-jihadi history as well as their religiously and culturally diverse manifestations in the present (Ufuq e.V. 2016a,b).
Mar 18, 2019 · This study evaluates ISIS’s image front by analyzing its messages promoted through various online communication platforms: audio statements made by ISIS leaders, official videos, Dabiq and Rumiyah magazines, Islamic chants (nasheeds), and Amaq news reports. The findings indicate that ISIS uses messages strategically in an attempt to create ...
