During the Islamic terror attack in Mumbai, India last year, tech-savvy terrorists used BlackBerries and Google Earth satellite-imaging to plan and carry out their atrocities.Once again, the West’s enemies were employing 21st century technology to spread its dangerous 8th century ideology. Since September 11, 2001, experts have been increasingly concerned about the rapid growth of the “internet jihad.”The SITE Intelligence Group monitors YouTube, which has become a favorite platform for the disseminate Islamist propaganda and terrorist how-to videos.For example, a password-protected forum run by Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra (“Knights in Support of the Invasion”) offered step-by-step instructions to radical Muslim sympathizers on how to post videos to YouTube. The same radical group has called for an “invasion of Facebook”, the hugely popular social networking site.Facebook and YouTube have strict terms of use allowing them to remove videos and sites that advocate violence, racism and the like. However, given that Facebook’s membership is over 175 million and rising, constant monitoring is simply impossible. Banned users can set up replacement websites under false names. By stripping out trigger words like “terrorism” that will get their sites banned, they can outrun the YouTube and Facebook monitors a little longer.The web’s international reach means that online jihad has no boundaries, making it even harder to police. A recent study by the UK’s Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC), called “Virtual Caliphate,” revealed that British Muslim radicals are using Internet tools for recruitment, training and propaganda...more..http://www.examiner.com/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2009m4d2-Radical-Muslims-wage-jihad-on-the-internet
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Radical Muslims wage jihad on the internet
During the Islamic terror attack in Mumbai, India last year, tech-savvy terrorists used BlackBerries and Google Earth satellite-imaging to plan and carry out their atrocities.Once again, the West’s enemies were employing 21st century technology to spread its dangerous 8th century ideology. Since September 11, 2001, experts have been increasingly concerned about the rapid growth of the “internet jihad.”The SITE Intelligence Group monitors YouTube, which has become a favorite platform for the disseminate Islamist propaganda and terrorist how-to videos.For example, a password-protected forum run by Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra (“Knights in Support of the Invasion”) offered step-by-step instructions to radical Muslim sympathizers on how to post videos to YouTube. The same radical group has called for an “invasion of Facebook”, the hugely popular social networking site.Facebook and YouTube have strict terms of use allowing them to remove videos and sites that advocate violence, racism and the like. However, given that Facebook’s membership is over 175 million and rising, constant monitoring is simply impossible. Banned users can set up replacement websites under false names. By stripping out trigger words like “terrorism” that will get their sites banned, they can outrun the YouTube and Facebook monitors a little longer.The web’s international reach means that online jihad has no boundaries, making it even harder to police. A recent study by the UK’s Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC), called “Virtual Caliphate,” revealed that British Muslim radicals are using Internet tools for recruitment, training and propaganda...more..http://www.examiner.com/x-722-Conservative-Politics-Examiner~y2009m4d2-Radical-Muslims-wage-jihad-on-the-internet
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