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The Multi-faceted Roles of Women Inside Al-Qaeda
Figure 4: Network Analysis Ummah.com
(Generated by the Dark Web Team)
By analyzing the interaction of a “hot author” (in this case the “Women’s Resource
Expert” and the Religious Expert at ummah.com) with other forum members, it is
possible to identify the author’s social network inside the forum. The pink node
represents the author and the red nodes denote other interacting members. The
author is at the center of many discussions and the assumption could thus be made
that the “hot author” enjoys a high degree of impact and influence on the
interacting members. This is neither a gender specific nor a specific radical Islamic
behavioral pattern, but it does illustrate the multiplication potential of a female “hot
author” to other women.
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