SuperPoke Jihad suffers a setback. "Jihadist Group Trying to 'Invade' Facebook Gets Shut Down," by Joel Mowbray for Fox News, December 19:
A quickly growing jihadist group that used Facebook to spread its radical message has been shut down by the popular Web networking site after FOXNews.com alerted the company to the group's activities.
Facebook blocked the group, Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra — Arabic for "Knights in Support of the Invasion" — Thursday evening after the group swelled to about 120 members in just over one week.
The group had been exhorting its members to wage "Jihad to aid the religion of Allah and his Prophet."
FOXNews.com, working closely with a former radical Muslim now dedicated to exposing cyberterror activity, was able to gain access to the group and its content.
Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra wrote that its purpose was "to support Jihad and Mujihadeen" and that it started the Facebook group "to invade this Web site" and to ask "Allah to grant us Jihad and martyrdom."
It promised future action: "Today we invade your sites, tomorrow your lands and homes, o you cross worshippers."
The site's contents included three graphic videos:
— A so-called "martyr" statement from a soon-to-be homicide bomber;
— An Islamic militant, just before dying in battle, asking others to position him for proper prayer to bless his actions.
— A purported Egyptian "traitor" being beheaded on camera because he was accused of helping Americans in Iraq.
A few members of the group posted photos to identify themselves, known as profile pictures, that included well known members of Al Qaeda's leadership as well as prominent Saudi clerics.
One of the group's founders, who called himself Omar Abdel Hakeem, after the Syrian cleric who wrote the book on how to instruct Al Qaeda followers to use technology, wrote a mission statement to inspire "Jihad" against "the cross worshippers," or Christians:
"Maybe the day will come when one of the martyrs is asked [by Allah] who urged you to Jihad, so he answers saying: a message came to me from Facebook asking me to support the Mujihadeen. The message impacted me therefore I went to Jihad to destroy the places of the cross worshippers."
Jarret Brachman, a freelance cyberterror expert who formerly was director of research in the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy, called the group's members "Ji-hobbyists" — users who may be passionate about Al Qaeda's teachings but were unlikely to take violent action.
"They're very knowledgeable and serious. They know the movement, and are using Facebook, not so much to plan an attack, but to propagate a message," Brachman said.
FOXNews.com contacted Facebook on Thursday seeking information about Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra. A few hours later, Facebook yanked the site. A similar group with the same content appeared briefly Friday and was taken down within minutes.
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said the group is now disabled and that the company is investigating the group's "friends," and may take further action. [...]
On Monday, the group announced on Facebook that it had created a formal structure of seven "battalions," responsible for duties ranging from spreading religious materials to military knowledge.
It claimed that three of the seven "battalions" had started recruiting, and communication among those individuals could continue even if the Facebook group were to shut down.
"We can't know if these are sophisticated actors capable of coordinating or assisting attacks or if these are just attention-seekers," warned terror expert David Draper of the Nine/Eleven Finding Answers (NEFA) Foundation. "But just having the propaganda available for impressionable youths to find at Facebook is dangerous in and of itself."
That idea seemed to be echoed by one Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra founding member, who identified himself as AboLbaraa Alshamy. He wrote:
"90% of this war is propaganda war.... Therefore those of us who are not in the real Jihad need to engage in this propaganda war."
Experts agree that moves by Facebook and other Internet companies to shut down the group do little. Members of the now-disbanded Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra could form a similar group on another social networking site or even again on Facebook.
They say that to avoid detection, groups like this know now know to strip out words that get their posts flagged, enabling them to get their message out to impressionable young Muslims.
"Propaganda doesn't need to have overt support for violence or terrorism in order to inspire someone to become a terrorist," Draper said.
"That idea seemed to be echoed by one Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra founding member, who identified himself as AboLbaraa Alshamy. He wrote:
"90% of this war is propaganda war.... Therefore those of us who are not in the real Jihad need to engage in this propaganda war."
-- from the article above
Yes. And that is true on the Infidel side too. And our "propaganda" need only be the truth.
What are the elements of that truth?
First, the contents of Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira.
Second, the recorded behavior of Muslims toward non-Muslims over the past 1350 years, from Spain to the East Indies.
Third, the observable behavior of Muslims toward non-Muslims today, both in countries already ruled by Muslims (see Copts in Egypt, Christians in the Sudan or Indonesia, Hindus and Chinese in Malaysia, Hindus in Pakistan or Bangladesh), and in countries where Muslims do not yet rule (everywhere in Western Europe).
Fourth, the impossibility of changing the texts, and therefore the tenets, of Islam.
Fifth, the fact of Muslim mendacity about Islam itself, which receives religious sanction in both taqiyya (with its origins in Shi'a Islam, but long practiced by both Sunni and Shi'a Muslims) and kitman.
Sixth, the importance of the Infidels demonstrating, on every occasion, that they are not fooled by Muslims, not by the smiling imams with their Outreach Nights, not by full-page ads paid for by the Saudis and all about a "peace" with Israel that would merely be the next step in the salami-tactics urged by the Slow Jihadists who realize that Israel cannot be eliminated at one go, or one military blow, but must be whittled away at, losing control of invasion routes, of even the tiniest strategic depth (so that it may yet again have an eight-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea), losing control of aquifers essential to its population, losing, finally, the morale essential to its survival if it is forced to surrender not only the "West Bank" but, above all, the parts of Jerusalem it finally came into rightful possession of, by force of arms, in June 1967.
Seventh, the need to counter campaigns of Da'wa that are well-funded and carefully targetted at the economically and psychically marginal in the Western world.
Eighth, the need to express, on every occasion, especially to Muslims, that the failures of Muslim states and societies are, it can without much difficulty be shown, the result of Islam itself, of the way in which it encourages despotism rather than individual liberty, economic paralysis rather than individual initiative, hideous mistreatment of both women and of all non-Muslims, encourages the habit of mental submission, and in general, crushes the very forces of free and skeptical inquiry that every society needs to develop and improve.
Ninth, never forgetting, not for a minute, Numbers One Through this Nine, listed right here.
Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra wrote that its purpose was "to support Jihad and Mujihadeen" and that it started the Facebook group "to invade this Web site" and to ask "Allah to grant us Jihad and martyrdom."
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he just hasn't asked the right person yet to grant him his martyrdom...
I have t owonder if it had anything to do with this story:
...In one recent thread, [MPAC spokesman] Bukhari says: "Muslims who fight against the occupation of their lands are 'Mujahadeen' and are blessed by Allah. And any Muslim who fights and dies against Israel and dies is a martyr and will be granted paradise ... There is no greater oppressor on this earth than the Zionists, who murder little children for sport."
Well, Bukhari didn't evade the question. He confirmed that the Facebook discussion was authentic, and said: "I stand by that [his comments], and I think any Muslim in the world stands by that ... if you think I'm going to tap dance for you and say 'These Muslims are really bad and should sort their own house out', then I'm not going to..."
Looks like FOX News is patting itself on the back a bit much and that there's still some MAJOR PROBLEMS on Facebook:
http://www.thejidf.org/2008/12/its-about-time-fox-news-finally-covers.html
I think there's a conspiracy to keep the fact that the JIDF has been on top of this for over a year out of the news. Google the story, and then click on any link with "JIDF" in the page summary. Explorer will not open it. JIDF has shut down hundreds of these groups, in conjunction with Internet Anthropologist, over the course of the last year or so. But Fox gets one 120-person group shut down and not only is it frontpage news, but any reference to the fact that this has happened hundreds of times, is a rampant phenomenon, that anti-Semitic/genocidal content is the common thread in all these groups, and the JIDF has been all over is kept off the Internet. Kept off the Internet.
I find this very scary. I really think the Internet is being censored, and it's starting with the ability of Jews to protect themselves. I realize how paranoid I sound, but do what I said and you will come to the same conclusion. Obama's brownshirts are already running amok.
It's not just JIDF sites. You can open a few in yahoo which don't explicitly say what's up in the page summary and which are from last summer, not yesterday or this month.
If Christians worship a cross, than Muslims worship a stone and a pedophile. It's only fair.
Jihad for the teens! Great. Don't underestimate the Internet, Pop.
I'm wondering if it could work the other way. Picture this: The Anti-Jihad Taskforce, brought to you by Facebook. Yeah.
If I ever get around to it, consider all you readers invited to my friends list. You 2, Robert Spencer.
PS jdamn,
Obama's a Commie. I don't think "brownshirts" would sit well with his extremist liberal fiends.
Oops, I meant friends. But I guess fiends works too.
in facebook there are a lot of muslims radicals and they are attacking anti-jihad groups in facebook just check the group that I run
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40684877951&ref=mf since the last week we are under heavy insults and threats both public and private
Access to my blog was blocked by facebook admins for a short time, until I asked for an appeal. No answer, no reason.