List of my short articles in English from 2004 – 2012

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Nur Azlin Yasin, “Indonesian Prisons: A Think Tank for Terrorists”, Counter-terrorist Trends and Analysis, ICPVTR, Singapore, August 2012.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan, “Insights from Recent Study on Roots of Violent Radicalisation in the UK”, Counter-terrorist Trends and Analysis, ICPVTR, Singapore, May 2012.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan, “The Translation of Radical Resources into the Indonesian Language and the Problem of Radicalization”, Counter-terrorist Trends and Analysis, ICPVTR, Singapore, March 2012.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan, “The Arab People’s Uprising: Jihadist Perspective”, RSIS Commentaries 008/2012, 11 January 2012.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan, “Insights on Community Engagement”, Counter-terrorist Trends and Analysis (Special Issue 1), Vol. 3, October 2011.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Muhammad Saiful Adli Ayob, “Osama’s demise and Zawahiri’s rise: Weakening of Al Qaeda”, RSIS Commentaries 105/2011, 15 July 2011. Re-published by Eurasia Review, 19 July 2011, available at http://www.eurasiareview.com/osama%E2%80%99s-demise-and-zawahiri%E2%80%99s-rise-weakening-of-al-qaeda-analysis-19072011/ (accessed on 20 July 2011).

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Nur Azlin Yasin, “Abu Bakar Bashir Imprisonment: What Next?”, RSIS Commentaries 94/2011, 22 June 2011.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan, “Controversy over burial could have been avoided”, The Straits Times, 16 May 2011.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan, “Osama’s Burial: How It Should Have Been?”, RSIS Commentaries 77/2011, 12 May 2011.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Nur Azlin Yasin, “Is al-Awlaki the No. 1 Enemy?: Setting the Priorities Right”, RSIS Commentaries, No. 39/2011, 11 March 2011.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Zulkifli Mohamed Sultan, “Solving the Libyan Quagmire: Exile Option for Gaddafi?”, RSIS Commentaries, No. 37/2011, 9 March 2011.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “Egypt and the Waning Threat of Jihadists”, The Straits Times, 14 February 2011.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “Egyptian Uprising: Waning of Jihadist Threat”, RSIS Commentaries, No. 16/2011, 11 February 2011. Re-published by Eurasia Review, available at http://www.eurasiareview.com/analysis/the-egyptian-uprising-waning-threat-of-the-jihadists-15022011/ (accessed on 16 February 2011).

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “Research and ideas needed to counter jihadism”, The Straits Times, 31 July 2010

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “Jihadism Studies in Counterideology: Time for Initiation in Universities”, RSIS Commentaries (85/2010), 28 July 2010.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “9/11 Conspiracy Theory: The Absent Perspective”, RSIS Commentaries (46/2010), 7 May 2010.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “The Disconnection of Indonesia’s Jemaah Islamiya and al-Qaeda from the Afghan Jihad Experience”, Terrorism Monitor, Vol. VII, Issue 39, 23 December 2009.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Countering Terrorist Ideology: Ideological Response Unit”, Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis, International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Vol. 1, Issue 3, November 2009, 1-3.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “How Jihadists Frame Their Justification for Terror”, Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis, International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, Vol. 1, Issue 3, November 2009, 4-5.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Nur Azlin Mohamed Yasin, “Counter-ideology: Role of Media Relations”, RSIS Commentaries (114/2009), 16 November 2009.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “Jihad: Let’s go back to intellectual roots”, The Straits Times, 28 September 2009.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “Counter-ideological Work: The Need for Intellectual Rigour”, RSIS Commentaries (92/2009), 11 September 2009.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan & Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “Abdullah Azzam: Would He Have Endorsed 9/11?”, RSIS Commentaries (30/2009), 23 March 2009.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Sharifah Thuraiya S A Alhabshi, “Counter-Ideology: Remain Vigilant During Economic Slump”, RSIS Commentaries (19/2009), 23 February 2009.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Responding to the Idea of Hijrah (Migration)”, Strategic Currents: Emerging Trends in Southeast Asia, edited by Yang Razali Kassim, RSIS, Singapore, 2009, pp. 176-9.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan & Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, ““Dramatising” Counter-Ideology”, RSIS Commentaries (126/2008), 1 December 2008.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan & Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “Bali Bombers’ Pre-Execution Statement: How much Islamic weight?”, RSIS Commentaries (116/2008), 5 November 2008.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan & Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “Abu Bakar Bashir: Jihad or Tyranny of Leadership”, RSIS Commentaries (109/2008), 9 October 2008.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan & Mohamed Redzuan Salleh, “The Hollow Jihad: The Unrestricted Nature of Al-Qaeda’s War”, RSIS Commentaries (93/2008), 2 September 2008.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Online “Curriculum” of Jihad: Four Broad Themes”, RSIS Commentaries (62/2008), 28 May 2008.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Communicating Counter-Ideology”, RSIS Commentaries (16/2008), 19 February 2008.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Update: Singapore’s Community Based Counter Ideology Initiatives”, RSIS Commentaries (6/2008), 11 January 2008.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Contextualising the fiqh – or law – of jihad”, RSIS Commentaries (25/2007), 3 April 2007.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “When does their jihad become my jihad?”, The Straits Times, 14 March 2007.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Revisiting Dar Al-Islam (Realm of Islam) and Dar Al-Harb (Realm of War)”, Strategic Currents, edited by Yang Razali Kasssim, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore, 2006, pp. 81-4. Published also in RSIS Commentaries (1/2007), 4 January 2007.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Refuting the Idea of Jihad as a Perpetual War Between Muslims and Non-Muslims”, IDSS Commentaries (108/2006), 6 October 2006.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “The Mumbai Rail Bombing: Explaining Kashmiri’s Group Expanding Theatre of Operation”, IDSS Commentaries (64/2006), 17 July 2006. Published in The Straits Times, “Kashmiri rebels on offensive jihad”, 21 July 2006.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Contesting Islamists’ Absolutism on the Islamic State”, IDSS Commentaries (52/2006), 14 June 2006.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Towards an index of Islamic governance”, IDSS Commentaries (36/2006), 17 May 2006. Published in The Straits Times, “Getting a measurement of Islamic governance”, 24 May 2006.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Provoked? Four rules to guide Muslim response”, The Straits Times, 25 March 2006

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Recognising the teachers of religion: Some food for thought”, IDSS Commentaries (9/2006), 7 February 2006. Published in The Straits Times, “Islamic teachers can learn to agree to disagree”, 9 February 2006.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Community based initiatives against JI by Singapore’s Muslim community”, IDSS Commentaries (4/2006), 16 January 2006. Published in The Straits Times, “A S’pore lesson in fighting terrorists”, 18 January 2006.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Can Islam be contextualised?”, IDSS Commentaries (66/2005), 30 September 2005. Published in The Straits Times, “Putting Islamic teaching in context ”, 7 October 2005.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Islam, Pluralism and Multi-culturalism”, IDSS Commentaries (63/2005), 9 September 2005.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Saudi Arabia After Fahd: Prospect For Change and Reform”, IDSS Commentaries (55/2005), 16 August 2005.

 

Singaporean-ness as a Bulwark against terrorismMuhammad Haniff Hassan and Norman Vasu, “”, IDSS Commentaries (31/2005), 8 June 2005.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Robbery in the name of jihad”, IDSS Commentaries (27/2005), 30 May 2005. Published in The Straits Times, “Beware distorted view of Islamic law”, 31 May 2005.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Yang Razali Kassim, “Who’s moderate voice? Hard to say”, The Straits Times, 18 May 2005.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Anti-Terror War: The Kingdom Strikes Back”, IDSS Commentaries (09/2005), 2 Mac 2005. Published in The Straits Times, “Counter Terrorism International Conference: Saudis Strike Back”, 4 Mac 2005.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Trouble in Southern Thailand: What a stronger Thaksin can do?”, IDSS Commentaries (06/2005), 7 February 2005. Published in The Straits Times, “Time for Thaksin to defuse tension in south.”, 8 February 2005.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “The Fragmented Terrorist Organisation: Lesser or Larger Threat?”, IDSS Commentaries (63/2004), 20 December 2004. Published in Today, “War on terror far from won”, 27 December 2004.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Islam Hadhari: Abdullah Badawi’s vision for Malaysia?”, IDSS Commentaries (53/2004), 26 October 2004. Published in The Straits Times, 30 November 2004.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Beslan School Massacre: Revenge in the Name of Islam?”, IDSS Commentaries (48/2004), 27 September 2004. Published in The Straits Times, “Beslan: Address Grievances, Not Terrorist Only”, 28 September 2004.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Militants Hurting the Muslims that They Claim To Fight For”, The Straits Times, 17 September 2004.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Yang Razali Kassim, “Madrasah As Partners in Ideological War Against Terrorism”, IDSS Commentaries (44/2004), 17 September 2004. Published in The Straits Times, “Madrasah Can Be Key Partners in War on Terror”, 22 September 2004.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan, “Vigilante group is unIslamic”, The Strait Times, 12 November 2004.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mushahid Ali, “The Fight Against Terror: Psychological Defence, Ideological Response”, IDSS Commentaries (34/2004), 27 August 2004. Published in The Straits Times, “Fighting Terrorism From Ideological Front”, 31 August 2004.

 

Muhammad Haniff Hassan and Mushahid Ali, “Osama bin Laden’s Peace Overture: A strategic shift or a new threat?”, IDSS Commentaries (11/2004), 19 April 2004.