Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted رسالة دكتوراه ( قدرة الجماعات الارهابية على استخدام مواقع التواصل في السعودية لتنجيد الشباب ونشر الايدلوجيا المتطرفة - دراسة تحليلية لبناء السرديات الجهادية في تويتر - )(Universidad De Alcala, 2024) Alghamdi, Saleh Saeed; Pertu, Julian LaThe rise of jihadi discourse on Twitter (now known as X) has represented an issue of increasing concern with its influence on online audiences and sociey. Despite counter strategies and global initiatives to curb extremist discourse and online radicalisation the influence of jihadi narratives on social media and Twitter remains a pervasive threat. The widespread adoption of social media and Twitter in Saudia and as a major power in the Middle East, Saudia Arabia has been the target of jihadi discourse and susceptible to extremist influence with far reaching regional and global implications. Given the rise and dissemination of jihadi discourse on Twitter relating to or emanating from Saudi Arabia this research investigates the ability of extremist groups to spread their ideologies through the social media platforms in Saudi Arabia on Twitter in the period 2015-2106. A systematic grounded discourse analysis of Twitter data was employed to comprehensively examine jihadi discourse on the platform. The findings reveal a deliberate and diverse narrative structure that integrates ideological, historical, religious, and socio-political elements, enhancing its persuasive power through strategic framing techniques. The communication strategies on Twitter, including rapid dissemination, amplification, and the use of multimedia, significantly enhance the discourse’s influence. This discourse shapes perceptions, behaviors, and identities, creating strong emotional and cognitive impacts. In Saudi Arabia, Twitter's role in propagating jihadi narratives is particularly impactful, linking messages to current events and leveraging multimedia to resonate with the audience, thereby posing a persistent threat to societal stability. This contributes a novel strategic framework for analysing online extremist communication that extends theory and supports policy guidance to counter online extremism by analysing jihadi discourse's persuasive power and influence on Twitter.140 0Item Restricted THE LACK OF FOREIGN TERRORIST REPATRIATION AND HOW IT CAN BE THE LEADING REASON FO TERRORISM(Saudi Digital Library, 2022-11-14) Algilani, Sarah; Mignot, MahdaviThe primary aim of the qualitative study is to explore the literature concerning the issue of repatriation and understand its influence on the existence or eradication of terrorist activities within the global community. The study evaluates the options provided by the human rights crusaders, including the proponents of international laws on dealing with the issue of foreign fighters to facilitate the fair prosecution of the suspects and the rehabilitation and restoration of the foreign fighters into their nations of origin. The study conducts intensive desk research to ensure that the objectives, aims, and problems inherent in the study are effectively addressed and strives to ensure that the research findings provide appropriate responses to the research questions. The study embraces the interpretivism research philosophy, inductive research approach, ethnographic strategy, and thematic data analysis to evaluate the qualitative data to understand the problem of foreign fighters within the community and provide solutions on repatriation and fair prosecution of foreign fighters to facilitate the reduction of terrorist activities and radicalisation within the future global society. The study reiterates the fair treatment of children and wives of foreign fighters who should be treated differently compared to the FTFs. The study's findings shall inform the current and future policies on repatriation of FTFs, providing guidance and regulation on the international law experts and practitioners on the appropriate strategies of handling FTFs, especially concerning the subject of repatriation. Keywords: Repatriation, foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs), international law, Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), territorial jurisdiction, criminal jurisdiction, terrorism, radicalisation, extremism, and human rights.36 0Item Restricted To create and to regulate: the discursive construction of the ‘Muslim community’ in parliamentary counter-terrorism debates(Saudi Digital Library, 2022-09-21) Assiri, Naof; Perret, SarahSince 7/7, there has been increasing fears over ‘homegrown terrorism’, generating a need for soft forms of counter-terrorism legislation that repelled the forces of radicalisation. However, this legislation came with intense scrutiny, within academic and public discourse, as it disproportionately targeted the British Muslim community. Essentially, counter-terrorism legislation constructed a Muslim ‘suspect community' in the United Kingdom. However, these critiques fail to consider the role of Parliament in constructing a racialized ‘Muslim community’, legitimizing said-discriminatory legislation. Therefore, I pose the question: How has parliamentary discourse constructed a Muslim ‘suspect community’ within counter-terrorism legislation? I find that UK parliamentary discourse have enabled and legitimised counter-terrorism practices as a form of permanent pre-emption, by discursively constructing a collective racialised identity, the ‘Muslim community’, as always at-risk of ‘becoming terrorists’. This finding allowed me to understand how political discourses have legitimised specific counter-terrorism practices, namely the Prevent Strategy (2011), that aim to discipline and manage British Muslims and their radical skin.14 0