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@AmarAmarasingam

Senior Research Fellow, | Postdoctoral Fellow at | Work: terrorism, social movements, sociology of religion, MENA, South Asia.

Toronto, Canada
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Joined August 2010
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    May 24

    1. My new report with Lorne Dawson for , based on years of research with foreign fighters and those close to them is now out. You can read it here. A few key findings and comments:

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    6 hours ago

    Great Thread.

    What do you do when your country breaks your heart? When not once but repeatedly it fails to live up to the aspirations of even those citizens with the most modest of aspirations for it? When the ideals of its founders are left to yellow and be forgotten in…
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  3. 3 hours ago

    'Now who is there for us?' Hundreds mourn death of Chennai’s ‘20 rupees doctor’

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    14 hours ago

    Senator Collins, basically personifying this quote from : "White women, who enjoy proximal power from their association with white men, have often served as the white patriarchy’s most eager foot soldiers."

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    19 hours ago

    With Anjem Choudary to be released from prison any day now, this commentary, based on 5 yrs of field work, argues that most people who come across his activist network do not join, and most who join do not escalate to violence. Adebolajo, Butt, etc. are the outliers, not the norm

    Al-Muhajiroun May be Appalling, but it is Not a Conveyor Belt to Terrorism …
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    8 hours ago

    Hi. I'd like to let you know about a significant new report on the state of white supremacy in the United States, titled New Hate and Old: The Changing Face of American White Supremacy. This report examines the rise and impact of the alt right.

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    12 hours ago

    "Sens. Susan Collins and Jeff Flake Are Frauds, Plain and Simple. Their Kavanaugh Votes Show It." - my latest for on today's events and votes:

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    14 hours ago

    Telling the truth matters, even when telling the truth doesn't make a difference.

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    13 hours ago

    Collins starting her own movement,

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    14 hours ago

    "A man’s name is a numbing blow from which he never recovers." - Marshall McLuhan

    Republican Sen. Jeff Flake to vote yes on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court "unless something big changed"
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  11. 14 hours ago

    “Follow the trail of dead Russians” - Russian Official Tied to Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Trump Tower Lawyer, Is Dead

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  12. 14 hours ago

    Fixed it for you: A surgeon and an activist, who has tirelessly brought the plight of her people, which she also directly witnessed and experienced, to the world.

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  13. 14 hours ago

    Great news.

    Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke has been convicted of murder in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald
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    15 hours ago

    It's unfortunate that one has to be a WaPo columnist to get this kind of attention, but never mind. There is no reason to detain Khashoggi, irrespective of where he writes, irrespective of how popular or unpopular his opinions are.

    'Where Is Jamal?' Here's What to Know About Missing Washington Post Columnist Jamal Khashoggi
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    Oct 4

    Arabic speaker in the DC area looking to break into work on Yemen issues? My company is hiring -- DMs open

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    20 hours ago

    Smack a Canadian? Listen to our all star panel ⁦⁩, ⁦⁩ & ⁦⁩ breakdown USMCA (NAFTA 2.0) on our latest ⁦⁩ & ⁦⁩ podcast. Who got what? Will it pass Congress & more

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    15 hours ago

    What this report says is the GRU is associated with the name Cybercaliphate, which isn't quite the same thing as the Russians being behind it. That they aided and amplified it, I have no doubt, but there's substantial evidence that most CC activity was ISIS linked. 1/x

    Except it’s not ISIS, according to the Brits, who today published a report saying the CyberCaliphate is actually Russia's military intelligence service …
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    Oct 4

    1. Four years after he went missing and was presumably killed in Iran while enroute to Syria from Waziristan, influential German Jihadi preacher Yassin Chouka from Bonn was finally eulogized.

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  19. 17 hours ago

    Cool read. A Former Obama Operative Built a New Anti-Republican Attack Machine.

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    19 hours ago

    Congrats— this is one of the rare times the title is deserved. Yazidis/Ezidis were victim of ignorance (of their faith by their neighbors) just as much as victim of ISIS. “Nadia Murad - from rape survivor in Iraq to Nobel Peace Prize”

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  21. 17 hours ago

    After a long work day in Rojava: falafel.

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