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An Internet jihad aims at U.S. viewers
International Herald Tribune ^
| Sunday, October 14, 2007
| By Michael Moss and Souad Mekhennet
Posted on 10/15/2007 3:52:38 PM PDT by Sudetenland
When Osama bin Laden issued his videotaped message to the American people last month, a young jihad enthusiast went online to help spread the word.
"America needs to listen to Shaykh Usaamah very carefully and take his message with great seriousness," he wrote on his blog. "America is known to be a people of arrogance."
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Khan, who was born in Saudi Arabia and grew up in New York, is an unlikely foot soldier in what Al Qaeda calls the "Islamic jihadi media." He has grown up in middle-class America and wrestles with his worried parents about his religious fervor. Yet he is stubborn. "I will do my best to speak the truth, and even if it annoys the disbelievers, the truth must be preached," Khan said in an interview.
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Terrorism experts at West Point say there are as many as 100 English language sites with Khan's, which claims 500 regular readers, among the more active. While their reach is difficult to assess, it is clear from a review of extremist material and interviews that militants are seeking to appeal to young American and European Muslims by playing on their anger over the war in Iraq and the image of Islam under attack.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americanjihadis; internet; jihadinamerica; samirkhan; warning
I did a search and didn't find a previous posting so:
This is a frightening view of what we face and will be facing more of in the future.
This is the youth of our future, and it is a growing phenomenon in the Islamic community both in Europe and in America.
Note that the "youth" in talked about in this article is in South Carolina, not Riyadhi, not Tehran, not even in South London, but right here in our own backyard.
Islam..."the Religion of Peace."
RIIIIGHT!
To: Sudetenland
This isn’t an act of free speech, but much more. Inciting the enemy and calling them to arms against America is not an act of treason? Why isn’t he in jail?
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posted on
10/15/2007 4:01:07 PM PDT
by
Melinda
To: Sudetenland
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posted on
10/15/2007 4:01:15 PM PDT
by
jocko12
To: Sudetenland
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posted on
10/15/2007 4:03:00 PM PDT
by
sure_fine
(• " not one to over kill the thought process " •)
To: Sudetenland
And by 2015, they will be 30% of the world's population. (Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations.) The book, not the short article from Foreign Affairs.
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posted on
10/15/2007 4:03:04 PM PDT
by
navyblue
(<u>)
To: Sudetenland
“This is a frightening view of what we face and will be facing more of in the future.”
The real frightening part is that the government just sits idly by, watches it all take place and do nothing about it.
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posted on
10/15/2007 4:07:08 PM PDT
by
353FMG
(Government is the opiate of the people.)
To: Sudetenland
Kind of interesting. This little sh*t doesn’t realize that the NSA have already made pictures of him in the light and distributed it to Law Enforcement all over the country. They will mine all of the intel that they can get, and then he will share a jail cell with Ahmed.
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posted on
10/15/2007 4:09:20 PM PDT
by
richardtavor
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem in the name of the G-d of Jacob)
To: Sudetenland
Simple rebuttal to the young man.
“Allah despises Osama bin Laden, and all he stands for, and you can see Allah’s hand in how Osama loses all his battles, his family is ashamed of him and dishonored by him, his friends and companions are mostly dead, having died in inglorious ways while killing innocent Muslims, his followers die like dogs at the hands of infidels, he surrenders great parcels of Muslim lands to infidels, and finally how the few who are left that embrace his evil are unlearned fools who worship graven images and practice fornications.”
To: richardtavor
The MSM were asked not to out this guy because it WAS an ongoing investigation. That is what makes me insane with anger. THANK YOU media. They can’t seem to help but participate in treason at every turn. So, don’t just hang the guy hang the people that allowed this story to be told.
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10/15/2007 4:14:12 PM PDT
by
Leapofaith
(I stole this tagline from Radix --- don't tell)
To: Sudetenland
Why can't someone post the URL for the blogs of these asswipes.
A lot of us here have a indepth experience in the I/T field and it would be interesting to "exchange ideas" with these guys..
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posted on
10/15/2007 4:29:10 PM PDT
by
Riodacat
("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - WC)
To: Sudetenland
"America needs to listen to Shaykh Usaamah very carefully and take his message with great seriousness," he wrote on his blog. "America is known to be a people of arrogance." ----------------snip---------
Khan, who was born in Saudi Arabia and grew up in New York, is an unlikely foot soldier in what Al Qaeda calls the "Islamic jihadi media." He has grown up in middle-class America and wrestles with his worried parents about his religious fervor. Yet he is stubborn. "I will do my best to speak the truth, and even if it annoys the disbelievers, the truth must be preached," Khan said in an interview.Hey Khan: Toss my salad you filthy tenth-century piece of pig excrement. I laugh at little faggots like you (all jihadis are latent homosexuals).
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posted on
10/15/2007 5:01:07 PM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(FRED THOMPSON '08)
To: Sudetenland
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posted on
10/15/2007 5:37:13 PM PDT
by
Jorge
To: Riodacat
A lot of us here have a indepth experience in the I/T field and it would be interesting to "exchange ideas" with these guys.. Could you imagine them trying to stand up to the debate and challenges in a forum like FR?
I could just see them furiously pounding out their threats before lighting their computers on fire.
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posted on
10/15/2007 5:40:22 PM PDT
by
Jorge
To: Sudetenland
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posted on
10/15/2007 6:51:19 PM PDT
by
G8 Diplomat
(Star Wars teaches us a foreboding lesson--evil emperors start out as Senators)
To: Leapofaith
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posted on
10/15/2007 6:53:37 PM PDT
by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Civilian Irregular Information Defense Group http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Thank you my friend. I knew about this I have just been so angry about it all. I can not express my rage. I want to see the feds go after the media for this. We needed this guy to stay around for awhile.
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10/15/2007 7:13:47 PM PDT
by
Leapofaith
(I stole this tagline from Radix --- don't tell)
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