Jihad and the World

       Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the intersection of Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, which provides education on national security. This is Episode Three in a ten-part series about a mass murder attack at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. In this episode, we look at Hasan’s early life and early career in the U.S....

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Today, we start a 10-part podcast series about the mass murder at Fort Hood, which was a killing in the name of Islam carried out by an American soldier in Texas. The series is cal...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. This is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Today’s podcast revisits topics discussed in Jihad and the West – Black Flag over Babylon, released ten years ago. Here, we provide brief biographies of two men who were in the news seve...

Welcome to Jihad and the World, a podcast by Mark Silinsky, presented by Kensington Security Consulting, offering education on national security. In this excerpt, we will focus on one incident from October 7 that shocked Israel and parts of the Western world. It was a celebration of violence where a young Hamas operative boasted to his mother, father, and the world about his murders of men, women,...

Who was Moshe Dayan? Yossi Argaman, an Israeli military historian, offered, "In all the years of Israel's history, there has not existed a military hero or dominant figure like him. Moshe Dayan symbolized the national and military rebirth and the revitalization of Jewish strength, the myth of the Jewish fighter. He climbed so high that he became a kind of god. His clerks at the Ministry of Defense...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the intersection of Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, which provides education on national security. This podcast is one of several follow-ups to a 10-part series on a mass murder at Fort Hood, Texas. The series is titled “Rampage – Mass murder at Fort Hood.” This first follow-up exa...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. In this, our second of ten episodes, we look at Fort Hood and the immediate environs. part podcast series about the mass murder at Fort Hood. The series is titled “Rampage – Mass M...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the intersection of Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, which provides education on national security. Today, we begin a 10-part series on a mass-murder attack at Fort Hood, Texas. A trust U.S. soldier murdered and tried to murder scores of his countrymen whom he declared enemies of Is...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Today, we examine Islamist infiltration in the United States military. We will profile several Army soldiers who killed or tried to kill their fellow American soldiers. We will als...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, and today’s episode shares updates on Western women who joined the Caliphate. It revisits topics covered in Jihad and the West – Black Flag over Babylon, released ten years ago. This episode provides a more detailed biography o...

       Hello from Jihad and the World—a podcast that explores the link between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. This is the ninth episode in a series centered on a single terrorist incident—the December 2, 2015, husband and wife mass shooting of health inspectors in San Bernardino, California...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. This is the tenth in a series of podcasts focused on a single terrorist incident - the December 2, 2015, husband and wife mass murder of health inspectors in San Bernardino, Califo...

           Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. The podcast series is called The Killing Floor. This is the episode where the killing continues as blood pours, seemingly without pause, onto the killing floor. Phones f...

  Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. The podcast series is called The Killing Floor. This is the episode in which the family and a friend plan to kill non-believers at a party. Practicing and Preparing             B...

  Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Today, we begin the second in a series of podcasts focused on the terrorist killing in San Bernardino, in which a husband-and-wife pair of Islamists murdered 13 health inspectors...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. The podcast series is called The Killing Floor. This is the episode where the husband and wife deposit their daughter with their grandmother and attend a Christmas party to shoot a...

             Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that examines the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we promote education on national security. Today, we start the fourth episode in a series focused on the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, where a husband-and-wife pair of Islamists killed 13 health inspect...

       Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. This is the third in a series of podcasts focused on a single terrorist incident - the December 2, 2015, husband and wife mass murder of health inspectors in San Bernardino,...

        Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Today, we begin the second in a series of podcasts focused on the terrorist killing in San Bernardino, in which a husband-and-wife pair of Islamists murdered 13 health insp...

         Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the connection between Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, where we bring education to national security. Today, we begin a series of podcasts focused on a single terrorist incident. On December 2, 2015, a husband and wife carried out a mass murder at an office party in Califo...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the intersection of the Western and Islamic worlds. This is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, and today’s episode continues to examine Westerners who have trekked abroad to fight for Islam, particularly a very odd American. This is podcast two, in which we revisit the books: Jihad and the West, Black Flag over Babylon, and The...

Hello from Jihad and the World – a podcast that explores the intersection of Western and Islamic cultures. The author is Mark Silinsky of Kensington Security Consulting, and today’s episode will examine the strange case of Monica Witt – from all-American girl to a traitor for Iran. Enjoy! “And sometimes they're (Iranian intelligence) successful, and Monica Witt is a good example of that.” Heather...

           Some Westerners, probably very few, who traveled to Syria are happy and do not wish to leave. Some have died, often in combat, and are buried in what became their homeland. Many, however, have not found what they hoped for in the Caliphate and wish to return to the West after a tough experience. The hardcore British Jihadis fighting for the State refer to their homesick comrades as "mum...