Will McCants
| William McCants | |
|---|---|
| Native name | William Faizi McCants[1] |
| Born | 1975[1] |
| Website | www |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University[1] |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Cook[1] |
Will McCants (William Faizi McCants) is a scholar of militant Islamism. He is a fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution. An adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, he is a former senior advisor on violent extremism to the U.S. State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. Founder and co-editor of the website Jihadica, he is also a former research analyst for CNA, a non-profit organization that encompasses the Center for Naval Analyses and the Institute for Public Research.[2][3]
Described by William Maclean, the Security Correspondent for Reuters, as "a leading scholar of militant Islamism,"[4] McCants was one of a number of experts to be singled out for criticism in the immediate aftermath of the 2011 Norway attacks. His message on Twitter saying Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, or the Helpers of the Global Jihad, had posted a claim of responsibility for the attacks was given prominence in The New York Times, though he expressed skepticism about the authenticity of the claim and The Times noted it could not be confirmed.[3][5] Following the revelation by Norwegian police that the prime suspect was a Norwegian man holding anti-Muslim views, McCants was heavily criticized by other bloggers.[5][6] In a piece for Electronicintifada.net entitled "How a clueless 'terrorism expert' set media suspicion on Muslims," Benjamin Doherty described how McCants tweets were presented in the New York Times and then spread by the BBC, and other mainstream news outlets.[2][5][5][6][7] There has been criticism by some academics of Doherty's article for unfairly blaming McCants for the media's mistakes.[8]
In an article published by Brookings, McCants explained the strong Salafist representation in the Egyptian government.[9]
McCants is author of a 2011 book titled Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam, based on his doctoral research at Princeton University.
McCants is co-editor of the website, Jihadica.com, which the Economist describes as, "a respected website."[10]
Books
- Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam (2011) by William F. McCants. (Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-15148-9)
- The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State (2015) by William McCants. (St. Martin's Press, ISBN 978-1-250-08090-5).[10]
References
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- ↑ Richard Bartholomew, "Blame “Abu Sulayman al-Nasir”, Not Will McCants," 23 July 2011, http://barthsnotes.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/blame-abu-sulayman-al-nasir-not-will-mccants/
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External links
- Will McCants on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Jihadica
