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UK 'Biggest Audience' in Europe for Jihadist Web Content
BBC ^ | 9/19/20

Posted on 09/19/2017 9:26:24 PM PDT by marshmallow

Online jihadist propaganda attracts more clicks in the UK than any other country in Europe, a report has found.

Britain is the fifth-biggest audience in the world for extremist content after Turkey, the US, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Policy Exchange's study said.

The think tank suggested the UK public would support new laws criminalising reading content that glorifies terror.

The government has told internet companies like Facebook and Google to do more to to remove jihadist material.

Former US military chief General David Petraeus, who wrote a foreword to the report, said efforts to combat online extremism were "inadequate".

He said the bombing of a London Tube train last week "merely underscored once again the ever-present nature of this threat."

"There is no doubting the urgency of this matter," he said.

"The status quo clearly is unacceptable."

The report suggested new laws to criminalise the "aggravated possession and/or persistent consumption" of extremist ideology - but not to criminalise someone who "stumbles across" jihadist content.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Islam; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: europe; europejihad; internet; internetjihad; jihad; ukjihad

1 posted on 09/19/2017 9:26:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

It’s just a coincidence. Yeah that’s it, a coincidence.


2 posted on 09/19/2017 9:31:10 PM PDT by wastedyears (Anime is real.)
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To: wastedyears

“The think tank suggested the UK public would support new laws criminalising reading content that glorifies terror.”

But - that would mean actually recognizing the fact that muzzies are responsible for most of this crap. And that constitutes a ‘backlash’. We can’t have that. It would upset the religion of pieces.


3 posted on 09/19/2017 9:45:18 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: marshmallow

Quick, censor everyone!


4 posted on 09/19/2017 9:46:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

You know what will happen. Anything that advocates freedom or tolerance or criticizes jihad will be banned as “extremist” while jihadists will be free to preach hate, recruit members and plot attacks.


5 posted on 09/19/2017 10:22:27 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Better idea for those publishing jihadist propaganda...shoot them as they sleep at night. Quietly.


6 posted on 09/19/2017 10:34:37 PM PDT by reardensteel
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To: marshmallow

Lawrence of Arabia syndrome.


7 posted on 09/19/2017 10:38:42 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: marshmallow

The UK government knows all that. They choose to make out they don’t, because they are resigned to the fact that m*slims are popping out babies at a rapid rate, and that the future of the UK is *slam. They don’t care about the normal people, and willingly throw them to the savages in order to keep those m*slim votes coming.


8 posted on 09/20/2017 5:35:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Constantly doing things in opposition to human nature is insanity.)
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To: marshmallow

We need to expand the bloody travel ban.


9 posted on 09/20/2017 5:39:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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