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.
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?
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.
Yep.
Thanks for the links. Internet Haganah looks particularly interesting, except that much of the material seems to be in Arabic, straight from its source.
You're welcome.
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.
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.
Anyone have any examples of this?
I never saw an Amish load his buggy with Nitrate fertiliser and clip-clop up to innocent children and blow them up.
I'm sure you haven't and neither have I.
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?
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.
There's plenty of asshats posting to YouTube, as well.
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
LOL
It's not a doll. It's an ACTION FIGURE! :-)
GI Joe is an action figure.
Big difference, dear.
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or there's this one:
Take your pick.
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We don't it.
We have ABC.
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