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Terrorists use Web against 'idiot' Americans
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | March 27, 2007 | Jerome R. Corsi

Posted on 03/27/2007 2:04:58 AM PDT by Man50D

Islamic terrorists are engaged in a "media jihad" in which they encourage jihadists to pose online as Americans to foster anti-war sentiment in the U.S.

According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, a posting on the Al-Mohajroon Islamist website with the username Al-Wathig Billah provides instructions on how to infiltrate popular American Internet forums and use them to distribute jihad films and spread anti-war sentiments.

"Our experience shows that such instructions often yield compliance," Eli Alshech, director of the Jihad and Terrorism Project at MEMRI, told WND.

The instructions direct jihadists to "raid non-political forums and trivia forums which American people favor."

Contributors are encouraged to register as Americans and to use a purely American-sounding username: "Choose an icon that indicates that you are an American, and place it next to your nickname."

As reported by MEMRI, the Al-Mohajroon website instructs media jihad as follows:

"There is no doubt, my brothers, that raiding American forums is among the most important means of obtaining victory in the fierce media war … and of influencing the views of the weak-minded American who pays his taxes so they will go to the infidel American army. This American is an idiot and does not [even] know where Iraq is … [It is therefore] mandatory for every electronic mujad [to engage in this raiding]." And again:

"Obviously, you should post your contribution … as an American … You should correspond with visitors to this forum, [bringing to their attention] the frustrating situation of their troops in Iraq … You should invent stories about American soldiers you have [allegedly] personally known (as classmates … or members in a club who played baseball and tennis with you) who were drafted to Iraq and then committed suicide while in service by hanging or shooting themselves." WND asked Alshech how a viewer could identify if particular postings on popular sites such as YouTube, LiveLeak and Google Video were examples of media jihad.

"It is very difficult to identify a specific posting as media jihad," Alshech said. "One should know a forum very well and pay attention to writing and posting patterns.

Alshech referred WND to an Islamic website that posted anti-war images of U.S. troops in Iraq as well as at least one example of a media jihad clip produced for Google Video.

Alshech said one of the most effective ways to counter media jihad is to press the government to urge forum administrators to follow closely suspect postings "to make sure jihadists do not exploit the freedom of speech so valued in democratic countries."

Alshech advised WND that fighting media jihad requires playing an activist role.

"It is also important to urge forum members to follow up some of the more suspicious postings in order to expose lies," Alshech said. "This will make other members skeptical about the postings."

A few months ago, for example, jihadists posted a video message showing a military ID of one soldier they claimed was killed in Iraq, he said.

U.S. bloggers, however, followed up the story and discovered the soldier was alive – he suffered identity theft in Iraq, but he had not lost his life.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: almohajroon; internet; internetcafe; internetcafes; jihadmedia; jihadpropaganda
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To: Hoosiersailor

I participate in one Yahoo forum and occasionally monitor a couple more - but they are veteran sites. Mikeboatsvietnam has one full time and one part time lib. Token liberals?


21 posted on 03/27/2007 2:51:55 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: conserveababe
"At DU, the terrorists won't even have to pretend they're someone else. They could just come out and say they're al-Qaeda terrorists and the DUmmies would welcome them with open arms."

Sad but true. The DUmmies have no idea who they are be-friending. Like the frozen snake story, when they start getting blown up or their heads cut off they will ask why, and hear "You knew what I was before you asked me in." They have no idea just who the enemy is. I doubt that history will be kind to them.

22 posted on 03/27/2007 2:52:44 AM PDT by skimask (People who care what you do don't matter.......People who matter don't care what you do.)
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To: Nailbiter

Yep.


23 posted on 03/27/2007 2:52:48 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Cindy

Thanks for the links. Internet Haganah looks particularly interesting, except that much of the material seems to be in Arabic, straight from its source.


24 posted on 03/27/2007 2:53:27 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Riley

You're welcome.


25 posted on 03/27/2007 2:54:11 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy
I stand corrected.
Agreeing with other posts, the non serious attitude of the populace in general and some of my friends in particular borders on insanity.
One of my best friends (College buddies, business partners) thinks the Islamic (Movement) is similar to the Amish.
Yes, he's a democrat, but is also educated and reasonably well informed.
He also ran for Congress in 2004 against Mark Souder and got beat but he got a 40 share in Allen County (Ft.Wayne, IN).
Not a stupid guy.
26 posted on 03/27/2007 2:58:59 AM PDT by mikeybaby (long time lurker)
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To: mikeybaby

Mikebaby said in part, "One of my best friends (College buddies, business partners) thinks the Islamic (Movement) is similar to the Amish.
Yes, he's a democrat,..."

What a load of steaming load of fresh steer manure.
Either he fell off the turnip truck or he's a democrat.
Yep, he's a democrat.

'Nuff said.


27 posted on 03/27/2007 3:10:57 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: skimask
"DUmmies"

Great post. Today's American leftists leave me shaking my head at their gullibility. These fools think that Republican neighbor Mrs. Jones tending her garden a few blocks down the street is a bigger threat to them than the I-F's who would love to cut their throats even as the DUmmies are explaining amidst their cries of terror how much they love the person who his cutting their head off. When the DUmmmies scream and babble about "fascist" America, I would like to make them live in a real fascist country.

I want them to tell me the name of one innocent American who has been thrown into all these concentration camps they claim are being erected by the Bush admin. Their claims easily exceed the normal bounds of absurdity plunging into the realm of true insanity. I don't know if it's drugs or todays modern educational system that makes them that way. Maybe both.

28 posted on 03/27/2007 3:19:29 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Man50D
...who were drafted to Iraq and then committed suicide while in service by hanging or shooting themselves...

Anyone have any examples of this?

29 posted on 03/27/2007 3:28:32 AM PDT by Mr.Unique (Global Emergency!)
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To: Cindy

I never saw an Amish load his buggy with Nitrate fertiliser and clip-clop up to innocent children and blow them up.


30 posted on 03/27/2007 4:39:58 AM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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To: sgtbono2002

I'm sure you haven't and neither have I.


31 posted on 03/27/2007 4:52:47 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Man50D

Why go to all that trouble when Benedict Murtha and Dingy Harry Reid carry water for the jihadis in through the Dem lapdog msm every day.
And of course, these vermin would still be eating sand in the desert and milking their camels if the "idiots" in the USA hadn't developed the internet. They burn down bakeries in Iraq because the bakers are selling products that Mohammed didn't approve, but they don't mind at all using cell phones and explosives and computers. Is there a working brain cell among Arabs?


32 posted on 03/27/2007 5:01:48 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: skimask
The DUmmies have no idea who they are be-friending.

Perhaps. But I've come closer to the conclusion that their belief is 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'.

They hate America, so take it from there regarding their aims in 'be-friending' such POS.

33 posted on 03/27/2007 5:04:59 AM PDT by bcsco
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To: Hoosiersailor

There's plenty of asshats posting to YouTube, as well.


34 posted on 03/27/2007 5:23:24 AM PDT by Rocko
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To: mikeybaby
I think most Americans, especially those posting on this site, would agree that being non-serious is not the same as being concerned. They are not driven to the over simplification of the situation and do not fall prey to the fear mongering leftoids who use the approach that everything is bad for you, the environment. the country and such. Humor is a great coping mechanism. Sarcasm even better when dealing with the left. I find it very useful in everyday situations. Yes, I am concerned, but I will not change my lifestyle or the way I go about my daily business one iota to accommodate feelings or thoughts concerning the jihad against America!

“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Orson Welles

35 posted on 03/27/2007 5:31:35 AM PDT by old cro
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To: Lurker

LOL


36 posted on 03/27/2007 5:32:39 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (...what I was born to do, don't have to think it through.....)
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To: Cindy

It's not a doll. It's an ACTION FIGURE! :-)


37 posted on 03/27/2007 5:34:53 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (...what I was born to do, don't have to think it through.....)
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To: Cindy
Barbie is a doll.

GI Joe is an action figure.

Big difference, dear.

L

38 posted on 03/27/2007 5:38:14 AM PDT by Lurker (Calling islam a religion is like calling a car a submarine.)
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To: Cindy
But since you asked:

or there's this one:

Take your pick.

L

39 posted on 03/27/2007 5:42:07 AM PDT by Lurker (Calling islam a religion is like calling a car a submarine.)
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To: Man50D

We don't it.

We have ABC.


40 posted on 03/27/2007 6:04:26 AM PDT by OpusatFR ( ALEA IACTA EST. We are so far past the Rubicon, there's no way back)
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