Cyber ribat in Malaysia: countering IS' new online guards

• Main Author: Muhammad Haziq Bin Jani
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80225; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40428
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Online support for ISIL in Malaysia measures in the thousands of pro-Islamic State (IS) Facebook accounts. Authorities will have to look at cyber ribat – the cyber guarding of military frontiers - seriously and decide on counter-narratives to stem the growing tide of this new pedigree of on-line jih...