SF18C
09-18-2006, 16:56
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (http://www.ctc.usma.edu/imagery.asp)
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point has provided an open source catalogue of these images and their meaning. The Islamic Imagery Project: Visual Motifs in Jihadi Internet Propaganda provides analyses for one-hundred key motifs that appear throughout the jihadists’ visual propaganda. It is our hope that this project will be useful to scholars and practitioners alike.
Who said Ring Knockers had no value! Beware the PDF it is huge, like 12 MB!!
This one caught my attention, I guess the ultra-lib's most have bought this one hook, line and sinker!
Inverted Currency (http://www.ctc.usma.edu/imagery_geography.asp#invertedcurrency)
Foreign currency, especially the U.S. dollar, is perceived as a symbol of Western power and dominance. Its inversion (or reconfiguration) allows jihadi groups to associate themselves with the same perceptions of power and dominance.
In the image selected, the U.S. $100 bill is inverted by replacing the image of Benjamin Franklin with that of Osama bin Laden. On the back, Independence Hall has been replaced with an image of the Twin Towers after the 9/11 attacks. In this manner, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda are depicted as possessing enough power to challenge the United States, or possessing the capability to turn American power against itself.
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point has provided an open source catalogue of these images and their meaning. The Islamic Imagery Project: Visual Motifs in Jihadi Internet Propaganda provides analyses for one-hundred key motifs that appear throughout the jihadists’ visual propaganda. It is our hope that this project will be useful to scholars and practitioners alike.
Who said Ring Knockers had no value! Beware the PDF it is huge, like 12 MB!!
This one caught my attention, I guess the ultra-lib's most have bought this one hook, line and sinker!
Inverted Currency (http://www.ctc.usma.edu/imagery_geography.asp#invertedcurrency)
Foreign currency, especially the U.S. dollar, is perceived as a symbol of Western power and dominance. Its inversion (or reconfiguration) allows jihadi groups to associate themselves with the same perceptions of power and dominance.
In the image selected, the U.S. $100 bill is inverted by replacing the image of Benjamin Franklin with that of Osama bin Laden. On the back, Independence Hall has been replaced with an image of the Twin Towers after the 9/11 attacks. In this manner, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda are depicted as possessing enough power to challenge the United States, or possessing the capability to turn American power against itself.