Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: top Twelve" list of Arabic Salafyist/Jihadist forums.

Name: muslm.net

Description: The Salafi forum Ana al-Muslim ("I am Muslm") is the oldest Salafi forum, having opened in 1996. Generally consider a Salafi forum, but not necessarily Jihadist, yet included on this page for good reason.

Name: alfirdaws.org

Description:
The "paradise" forum, this site was first reported publicly by us in January of 2005. The was at least originally, and may still be, linked to a gentleman in Greece, possibly of Azeri ethnicity. He appeared on the radar in October of 2004, at which point he was very active on the old al-Ansar forum.

Name: alhanein.com

Description:
Egyptian forum of the global jihad. There is circumstantial evidence to link this site's members to jihadist activity in Gaza, and perhaps also to Hamas. (formerly hanein.org).

Name: tajdeed.org.uk

Description:
Official site of Mohammed Al-Massari's Tajdeed/Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights organization based in London.

Alias: tajdeed.org

Name: al-boraq.com

Description:
Best known for it's involvement in attacks against the rival al-Hesbah forum. Oh, and there is that small matter of the death threat they posted against Aaron Weisburd, the founder of Internet Haganah and director of SoFIR.

Name: alhesbah.org

Description:
A very exclusive forum for Al Qaida operatives and supporters. Curious how the site continues to function uninterrupted while other forums and the people who operate them face various hardships...

Name: tajdeed.org.uk

Description:
Official site of Mohammed Al-Massari's Tajdeed/Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights organization based in London.

Alias: tajdeed.org

Name: al-boraq.com

Name: alhesbah.org

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Name: www.alnusra.net

Description:

Typical forum of the type, operated from Gaza and from time to time the home of rather detailed discussions particularly related to weapons development. After a period of down-time while moving from one server to another the site

Name: ikhwan.net

Description:
A forum of the Muslim Brotherhood, and thus its inclusion in this list is open to question. However, at the level of the rank and file, there is overlap, or cross-pollination, between this forum of the Brotherhood and those forums that represent the Salafyist/Jihadist perspective. This situation is analogous to that of Hamas (the Gaza branch of the Brotherhood) and its affinity with al-Qaida and the global jihad. On 'paper' they are two distinct strains of radical Islam. On the ground the dividing lines - if they exist at all, are blurred.

Name: ekhlaas.org

Description: The al-Ekhlaas forum is interesting because it spans the generations of jihadi forums, dating as it does to the glory days of the al-Ansar forum and linked as it was for a time with Irhabi007. Nowadays this forum tends to travel in the company of the less well known al-Boraq site.

Name: al-faloja.com

Description:
AKA alshaf3y.com, this site was added to our list as the result of link analysis and what one might euphemistically describe as 'field observations'.

Name: farouqomar.net

Description:
This site was added to our list as the result of link analysis and what one might euphemistically describe as 'field observations'.

Name: al-ommh.net

Description:

Palestinian jihadist site formerly known as alommh.net and alommh.org. The site's principle administrator is believed to reside in southern Lebanon

Name: ummah.com

Description:
English-language forum with a Londonistan accent.

Name: islamicnetwork.com

Description:

English-language forum serving as home for refugees from the clearguidance and reviving islam forums. Forum is operated by sasjamal and co. from clearguidance.com. After the capture of one Daniel Joseph Maldonado while fighting with the al-Qaida franchise in Somalia, this site came to be referred to as "a Web site frequented by terrorism suspects" in mainstream media reports.

Name: qanitat.com

Description:
German-based womens' forum.

Name: minbar-sos.com

Description:
French-language jihadist forum which seems to think that we are supposed to sympathize with the plight of imprisoned terrorists.

Name: at-tawheed.com

Description:
Forum of the at-Tibyan publications group which in turn specializes in translating and/or subtitling major ideological and propaganda works of al-Qaida and the global jihad. This forum is reported to have been used by members of the Toronto 17, and is likely to be the forum that brought them together with Irhabi007 since the latter is known to have been associated with at-Tibyan. Domain is registered in the name of an identity theft victim.

Name: www.sehadet.com

Description:
A Turkish-language jihadist forum created by Alptekin Gungor, founder of the Ansar al-Islam site cihad.net and its successor, the mucadele.com forum.

Name: ribaat.org

Description:
A leading French-language forum of the global jihad, operated by the the Islamic Center of Belgium.

Name: forum.mucadele.com

Description:
Turkish-language forum which identifies most closely with the Chechen jihad.

Name: muntadaa.aswj.net

Description:
The only English-language forum to earn a place in the Top Ten, is the is the online home for people "who endeavour to be like the Prophet and his Companions".[Translation: Kafr-killing thugs.] (this forum was martyred in the winter of 2007).

Name: 3asfh.com