I’ve noted criticism of the Army War College for having published Sherifa Zuhur’s defense of Hamas. The Investigative Project on Terrorism has now published a substantial analysis of her work, which concludes:

American dedication to free speech should not extend to using taxpayer money to pay for a paean to Islamist terrorism, backed by shoddy research and written at what is supposed to be this nation’s premier U.S. Army institute for national security research and analysis. Unfortunately, there is precedent at SSI [the college’s research branch] for this genre of terrorist apologia … Zuhur … is the same author who penned an April 2008 SSI monograph, “Precision in the Global War on Terror: Inciting Muslims Through the War of Ideas.”
That monograph takes the form of a Glossary of Terms … , which Zuhur uses to identify “a trend of pathologizing beliefs and practices that are at the core of Islam.” Her definitions invariably deny any link between Islam and terrorism and claim that the violence of the suicide bomber is “not a manifestation of belief nor a natural outcome of Islamism or ‘fundamentalism,’ but rather a tactic, labeled with the religious principle of Jihad, that is intended to build an ethos, a camaraderie, and dependency on others engaging in violence.”