Islamic Terror Course

  • Course description: What is the global-digital age? How the new technology opened the space for a new terror? Why the three organizations: Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Jihad of Hamas and Hezbollah surfed from analog to digital world? Who is the ultimate modern terrorist – Osama Bin-Laden? What is the “Afghan Arab nation”? And how to become a global terrorist dispersed across the globe, from Madrid to Glasgow, Mombasa to Bali? The course takes its students through the origins, transformation and emerging form of the Global Islamic terror. The history, ideas, adaptation and new forms of terror are discussed. Students learn to classify form of the Islamic terror and what means of fight and prevention had Western world developed after the September 11, 2001.
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  • Potential participants: Students of Security and Strategy Departments, professionals, army and police forces, governmental officials
  • Duration: 14 weeks (3 months)
  • Languages of the video-lessons: English, Hebrew
  • Schedule: upon registration
  • Assignments of the course:
    • Guided personal project
    • Weekly multi choice exams
    • Final report on the project
  • Price: only 189$ p/m

Topics  of the course:

  1. Jihad in the Global era.
  2. What are the sources of the old Islamic terrorism and the new?
  3. The transition of the Islamic  Jihad from analog to digital
  4. Changes in Hamas movement
  5. Terror of 80s: kidnappings, explosions and military bases
  6. Hezbollah – a Shiite group deprived from global network
  7. How Al-Qaeda was born and the analog world of late 70th beginning of 20th century
  8. Osama Bin – Laden – the man and the issue

Testimonials:

Diane Crow: “The Lecturer of the course is profoundly creative and knows her field! She just seems to have what it takes to launch forward any idea in the most comprehensive way. She is a good lecturer and generous in sharing information and ideas”.

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Articles on Islamic terror

In one of the capitals of Western Europe there was recently a workshop discussing ‘the problem’. The problem, the Europeans explained, is: the attraction of Muslim citizens in the continent to the global Jihadist idea. It seems that in the 30s of the previous century the Germans and the other Europeans had an ‘imaginary problem’ with the Jewish nation, and in the current century they have a new enemy or ‘enemy’: the Muslim population in the EU. Islam in Europe, 11 of April 2009

Registration and Payment for the course

Our course are available upon registration. The registration for the course allows opening a personal blog upon Lecturer considerations, participation in the course forums and final certification. You must approve the Learning Agreement upon your registration and payment.

(1) Response to “Islamic Terror Course”

  1. Islamic Terror on the Internet | TIFDI Blogs Says:
    October 27th, 2009 at %I:%M %p -

    [...] Two crucial elements influenced spread and toxicology of the mobilization for action for Islamic fundamentalists in the Internet Era: the easiness and availability of access to the Net; and the openness and democratization of the once closed government structures. The course analyses the reasons, rational standing behind the usage of the Internet in mobilization for terror activities. Through analysis of texts and patterns of the actions, the course shows how proliferation and specialization formated new trends and ways of deadly terror tactics of the 21st Century. To read more about the course press here [...]