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Last week, Iyad El-Baghdadi, a human rights activist born in the United Arab Emirates, tweeted out portions of a call-to-action to Muslims worldwide by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State. He asked people to "rise up" and join the extremist group in their fight. Muslims on Twitter found the request hilarious, and took the opportunity to have a little fun. In an American political sphere that occasionally posits Muslims — not some Muslims, not a very, very small number of extremists — as uniform threats to national security, Twitter's collective response to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's request speaks to...

Hacking group Anonymous disables thousands of pro-ISIS Twitter accounts and taking militant websites offline Anonymous have stepped up their campaigns against the Islamic State They declared war on the jihadis in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks One group claims to have suppressed over 10,000 social media pages Some have posed as recruits to gain information on the Dark Web Head of the Ghost Security Group said they are playing an intelligence role The volunteer organization has been sending data to the FBI and other agencies via Congressional terrorism adviser, Michael S. Smith II Islamic State sympathizers using social...