Amarnath Amarasingam

Sep 26, 2024 | pt.icct.nl | Yannick Veilleux-Lepage |Amarnath Amarasingam |Tahir Abbas |Stanley De Coster

VOL. XVIII, Issue 3 This article presents an empirical analysis that unveils systematic biases in how major US and UK print media outlets portray terrorist attacks carried out by Muslim versus non-Muslim perpetrators. Employing computational text analysis of a corpus spanning over 10,233 newspaper articles published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and The Telegraph from 2003–2018, the study reveals two key disparities.

Jun 6, 2024 | icct.nl | Sareta Ashraph |Carmen Ka-Man |Joana Cook |Amarnath Amarasingam

In the aftermath of the collapse of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s self-declared “caliphate,” the international community has grappled with the question of how to achieve accountability for crimes committed by the armed group.

Dec 21, 2023 | religiondispatches.org | Carmen Celestini |Amarnath Amarasingam |Canada. He

In 2023, the landscape of conspiracy theories witnessed a significant evolution, with some older conspiratorial ideas surviving into the new year and others moving from the fringe to become influential narratives shaping public discourse and political agendas. QAnon, the 2020 presidential election “Big Lie,” the resulting court cases for former President Donald Trump, and those conspiracy theories linked to the pandemic and vaccines have been playing out before us for the past few years.

Nov 17, 2023 | gnet-research.org | Shweta Desai |Amarnath Amarasingam

IntroductionAmidst the flood of unverified and misleading claims on the Israel-Palestine war, India has emerged as an unlikely leading source of disinformation. Hindu nationalists in general, and supporters and members of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in particular, are among the top online profiles spreading fake viral videos and deliberate false information fanning Islamophobia.

Oct 27, 2023 | digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca | Michael Nesbitt |Leah West |Amarnath Amarasingam

AbstractCanada distinguishes “ordinary crime” from terrorism offences primarily by reference to whether an act meets the Criminal Code’s definition of “terrorist activity.” The most confusing and least understood element of terrorist activity is its motive requirement, that being that for a crime to constitute a terrorism offence, the actor must be motivated by politics, religion, or ideology. How do we know when such a motive exists, or even how to define these motivations?