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The Multi-faceted Roles of Women Inside Al-Qaeda
The high interaction of a female “hot author” with users who employ a female
name leads us to the conclusion that in the radical Islamic cyber world, women
prefer to talk with other women. Thus, the impact of a female “hot author” can be
very high on other women but at the same time have very little impact on men. It is
also interesting to note that “hot authors” use a specific writeprint pattern for bagof-word
variation across several years of postings that continually revolve around
similar topics.
Figure 6: Writeprint pattern for Bag-of-word Variation “Women’s Resource
Expert” ummah.com
(Generated by the Dark Web Team)
Concluding the analysis of female online activity in forums, it is obvious that the
four forums analyzed here are less extreme than for instance the minbar-sos
website. A total of 10,000 threads was analyzed and only a handful had any
relevance to terrorism. Again, only four forums with a high degree of female
activity were selected for this study. Most discussions in these forums revolve
around religion and politics. There is also considerable discussion of women’s
rights and female empowerment. The majority of the females in the forums
demonstrate a significant knowledge of Islam and women’s rights in Islam.
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