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@munira.bsky.social
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Founder and CEO of @chasseur.group. Sr Fellow at Verve Research, Visiting Fellow at ICCT Hague 2023, former nonresident Fellow at New Lines Institute of Strategy & Policy in DC. Conflict, CT, and emerging security challenges in Southeast Asia and beyond.
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My latest Short Read analysis for @icct.bsky.social on Malaysia's "Bangladeshi Militant Group" arrests reveals how amateur networks exploiting extremist branding for financial gain expose critical blind spots in counter-terrorism frameworks designed for ideological threats.

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Amateur Networks and Institutional Blind Spots: Malaysia’s Bangladeshi Militant Group
On 26 June 2025, Malaysian authorities announced the arrest of 36 Bangladeshi nationals following a coordinated three-phase police operation conducted from late April through June. This particular ope...
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katz.theracket.news
Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”

Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?

www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...
Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN
A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.
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jessmarindavis.bsky.social
I also recall making a similar point about women in terrorism: women's motivation tended to be classified as based on personal grievances and experiences, while men's motivation tended to be described in purely political terms.
johnhorgan.bsky.social
Very interesting observation here, and the terrorism nerd in me wonders if this specific pattern is reflected in how people talk about these 'hard to classify' cases (which is something we're all struggling with, admittedly).
isammis.bsky.social
From the sounds of things, though, they're using "personally motivated" in an obviously tendentious way — someone with mixed motivations on the left is deemed "politically motivated," while someone with similarly mixed motivations on the right is deemed "personally motivated." /1
munira.bsky.social
Serious scholars need to abandon the 'counterextremism expert' label. Stop wearing it like a badge of honor; the term is irreparably tainted. The field is fast losing credibility.

Find something clean. Trust me on this.
munira.bsky.social
Byman is trash. He will not feel any shame.
avitek.bsky.social
Dan should be absolutely ashamed of publishing that drivel.
munira.bsky.social
The Global South has long realised that Israel is finished. So-called Western political intellectuals are the last to realize their own irrelevance—too busy navel-gazing to see the world moving on without them.
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casmudde.bsky.social
Translation: killing non-white people is cool!
munira.bsky.social
Naw yea that report is pish. Bin it.
vortexegg.com
I feel vindicated seeing the critiques from all the actual extremism experts on that CSIS “rise of left-wing extremism” report.
munira.bsky.social
It's really fun!
munira.bsky.social
Smile, Bibi. Why aren't you smiling?
adamjschwarz.bsky.social
A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.
munira.bsky.social
Same developers that made The Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and Jusant looks like. I highly recommend The Banishers too if you've not tried them yet. I enjoyed it.
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antizionistjew.bsky.social
#WATCH | Italy Navy Ship reaches the Global Sumud Flotilla
munira.bsky.social
I'm more worried about how it works in practice, but looks fairl straightforward here: vt.tiktok.com/ZSDqFcK4N/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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munira.bsky.social
I haven't tried it. That good?
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lexialex.bsky.social
Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️
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tenoq.vax.asia
Don't look at Asmon and think he's an asshole. Look deeper, look at who he represents, and you will have an insight into how a lot of Americans think. He's a fantastic specimen for a "lowest common denominator" of a subset of people.
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chantalalive.blacksky.app
White people be like I'm studying to be antiracist. Wait I have to listen to a Black person & believe them? Naw that's too much, I'm out.
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chantalalive.blacksky.app
White people can move the needle if they want. Y'all got Jimmy Kimmel back on the air boycotting, you can throw some of that expendable income to support the vulnerable through mutual aid, you can make some moves against fascism instead of performatively bemoaning what you think doesn't affect you.
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mekka.mekka-tech.com
I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him.

I'm talking about something very different.

Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired.

Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to.

But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️
munira.bsky.social
Blocked. My my touchy and sensitive bunch aren't they 🙃
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vortexegg.com
First they came for Jimmy Kimmel, because I wasn’t paying attention to any of the people they came for before that
petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Something very Neil Postman in all this.

Having amused themselves to death/Trump, turns out that TV personalities are about the only thing that might cause autocratic pauses
oliverdarcy.bsky.social
Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.