This is, of course, how the Islamic State deals with anyone who dares get in their way. Theirs is a rule of total savagery and brutality. And the West’s partial and inadequate response to it is not going to come close to making Obama’s vow to destroy it a reality.
“ISIS threatens to kill Twitter employees for suspending terrorists’ accounts: CEO,” by Meg Wagner, New York Daily News, October 10, 2014:
ISIS might have a new target: Twitter employees.
After the site began cracking down on the terrorists, suspending their Twitter accounts, its staff received a slew of death threats from the Islamic fighters, the company’s CEO Dick Costolo told Vanity Fair.
Costolo did not detail the contents of the messages, but said ISIS fighters threatened to “assassinate” him and other Twitter employees.
“That’s a jarring thing for anyone to deal with,” he said.
The shut-down accounts were used to promote terrorism and discuss violence — topics forbidden under the site’s terms of service. The social media giant has long refused to give criminals a voice online, he said.
“It’s against the law in many of the countries in which we operate for them to use it to promote their organization,” Costolo said. “And when we do find those accounts we shut them down. We shut them down quite actively.
ISIS has proven itself to be an especially social media-savvy organization. While Twitter shuts down accounts when it finds them, plenty of terrorists have used the site to discuss their mission and connect with other fighters before being ousted.
In August, the group tweeted threats against the U.S., warning, “We are in your cities.”
Other fighters have tweeted photos of themselves holding cats and jars of Nutella in order to seem softer and friendlier to the West….
St. Patrick says
Media savvy?? I still haven’t heard from asshole fagdaddy yet..Mr. phd..pithy hassidic dolt..
gravenimage says
Islamic State threatens to kill Twitter employees for suspending their accounts
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I can remember when I thought most Tweets were no worse than rather vapid—not murderous death threats. *Ugh*.
Don McKellar says
Gee, maybe when the Twitter execs start getting assassinated will that be the time, FINALLY, when the mainstream media is forced to start talking honestly and plainly about Islam? How about the White House? After all, Michelle Obama is a big fan of tweeting. These are questions that come to mind.
Rob says
#saveourgirls
How’s that workin’ out for you Michelle?
Jen says
Here we go. I wondered when they would start trying to do this. I tried to report some Twitter accounts, but there are so many that are still active. As soon as the account is shut down, they immediately start a new account. What is so telling about ‘moderate’ Muslims in the West is that these jihadists seem to amass a huge following of ‘moderates’, literally within days of setting up a new account. Within roughly 10 days, I watched one account grow from zero to almost 7,000 followers.
Scanning through the comments, you can see that many of them are Western Muslims who are asking questions about what it is like to live in the Islamic State, questions about marriage to ISIS fighters, questions about what they should do if they don’t have enough money to make ‘hijrah’, or wishing these jihadists well. On Facebook, I’ve seen that some of these kinds of comments have come from Muslims who are not even wearing a hijab in their profile picture. One would expect that this kind of person isn’t very devout, but apparently this is not always an indicator.
Muslims everywhere, once previously viewed as moderate, are becoming excited over the ‘progress’ their religion has made in setting up a caliphate. So out crawls their previously dormant opinions about what they really think of the West. Every Islamic country ends up being a hellhole for personal rights, so I don’t know how you could be so idiotic as a Muslim to think that this is good thing.
Beagle says
I wish you worked in DHS, DoD, or the White House as a counter-terror advisor. You are observing and describing the problem a caliphate creates. The paid analysts just don’t get (or intentionally lie about) the Islamic pull such a thing engenders as it seems to move from success to success. “Come to the success” as they say.
The fall of the last caliphate, Sykes-Picot, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Islamic dream of a restored caliphate has been discussed on counter-jihad blogs and by certain authors for years.
Every western government: still apparently clueless, but probably intentionally deceptive.
Jen says
I wish JW readers had a direct influence on what these counter-terrorism units were doing. I really would like to know where they are looking or what they’re reading to come to their conclusions. Perhaps they have been trying to give the right advice but are simply being ignored.
Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says
And the sooner all media pick this up the better particularly in Scandinavia. Now Syrian/Chaldean Christians are being brought into Sweden. God help the Christians from the inundation of arrogant Muslims in Scandinavia. Have seen this coming for months and am also astonished at what appear to be moderate Muslims backing Islam.
Islam_Macht_Frei says
I guess they can go hide out with Molly Norris.
profitsbeard says
Unfortunately the threat was incomplete because the ISIS member exceeded the 140 character limit in his…
Jay Boo says
The defenders of Allah
In Islam, what you IZ you are
until you die protecting Allah
serving his inventor the Sharia Sorcerer.
Buraq says
Al Qur’an, the longest violent ‘tweet’ in history written by a ‘twit’.
ISIS Clowns!
Salah says
“ISIS fighters threatened to “assassinate” him and other Twitter employees.”
Assassinations are un-Islamic, they have nothing to do with Islam. Muhammad never ever … blah blah blah (Mainstream Media)
Assassinations are Islamic, they have everything to do with Islam. Muhammad used to … blah blah blah (Qur’an/Hadith/Sira)
Someone is lying there, guess who?
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2012/03/assassin-english.html
GP says
#saveTwitterExecs
#IslamKillsTwitter
#ISISfanboys
That’s just what moderate jihadis do: kill Everyone is isn’t them.
ibn Muslim says
It’s really inconvenient when your account get shut down. What about freedom of speech?
General Pershing says
Because these are Twitter rules – Twitter is a private company and the islamo-pukes are violating their end-user agreement.
Strange how islamists always refer to freedom of speech when it suits their purpose and kill this right when in control
ibn Muslim says
Behead those who behead you 🙂
Jen says
ibn Muslim- you’ve had one of your social media accounts shut down previously? What were you writing on there which led them to shut your account down?
Freedom of speech does not extend to those who are inciting others to commit violence.
Using our friendly Western laws that allow for freedom of speech to get a ‘leg up’ on spreading your Islamic agenda is not appreciated by non-Muslims because we recognise that you like to invoke your ‘right to free speech’ at all the appropriate moments. Your own Islamic paradises do not give a damn about your right to free speech. If you all want to live in Islamic paradises such as the Islamic State, you better get used to having none of these rights.
You can’t have it both ways.
ibn Muslim says
ibn Muslim- you’ve had one of your social media accounts shut down previously? What were you writing on there which led them to shut your account down?
I have been “homophobic” and cheering Iranian handling of homosexuals – by really applying Leviticus as any Bible believing Christian would. But they were internet forum accounts not “social media”…
Jen says
Neh. You don’t know enough about Christianity.
Christian scriptures are open to interpretation and dialogue. Unlike Islam, they are not regarded as the verbatim word of God.
You even mentioned the Old Testament LOL. The primary teachings are those from Jesus. Christians are actually allowed to have opinion about their faith, therefore I embrace everyone- I don’t agree that homosexuals should be treated badly.
Jen says
*Except Islam
ibn Muslim says
> Neh. You don’t know enough about Christianity.
I’ve been to the Mormon church and they don’t allow you to become a member if you had homosexual relations. Homosexuality is an abomination, but people are getting banned on internet just for saying so. Cheering Iranian handling of the problem is “trolling”, whatever that means.
Jen says
Mormons have set themselves aside from other branches of Christianity. Some people argue that Mormons are not under the umbrella of Christianity but Mormons say that they are, so I’ve heard from them. They have the Book of Mormon which they regard as sacred- I don’t really know specifically what they teach in it. I don’t have an opinion about them either way. They’re different. I’m unfamiliar with their form of Christianity.
My view of Christianity is that Jesus had a kind nature and he did not want to exclude- he said “love your neighbour” “pray for your enemies” etc. I favour the views in ‘surmon on the mount’ also.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205-7
Jay Boo says
Muslim leftist collaborators like ibn Muslim should be eliminated from society and locked behind bars.
ibn Muslim’s reference to Mormons and other comments lead me to believe that he is an anti-Romney fanatical Obama supporter and anti-Christian liberal posing as a Muslim.
At the Democratic convention in Charlotte Anti-Mormon billboards were posted for weeks near the convention and taken down just before the convention.
Jay Boo says
ibn Muslim claims to be “cheering Iranian handling of homosexuals ” by public lynching yet whines about Mormons excluding homosexuals from membership.
What a shameless Muslim butt kisser is this ibn Muslim.
Jen says
Jay Boo is right. The hideous way that Iran treats gay people can hardly be compared to the Mormons excluding a gay person from membership. I imagine that gay people would have no interest in joining the Mormon church if that was their policy anyway. There are plenty of other churches that are open to everyone.
ibn Muslim says
> There are plenty of other churches that are open to everyone.
They can hardly be called “Bible-believing” Christians. They have other sources of MC/PC shit that is above what Bible teaches.
> ibn Muslim claims to be “cheering Iranian handling of homosexuals ” by public lynching yet whines about Mormons excluding homosexuals from membership.
I do not whine, I encourage what opposes the heinous crime of homosexuality – Fitnah is worse than killing…
Jen says
ibn Muslim- “they can hardly be called Bible believing” Christians.
I just told you already that the Bible is open to dialogue- that is why there are so many branches of Christianity. Gay people are barely addressed in the Bible- the only references of homosexuality are the Old Testament and in Paul’s writings. The New Testament contains Jesus’ work. The OT was prior to that. You do not have to read every single line of the Bible without considering the overall context.
This is where you are confused. You are applying how Muslims view the Qur’an, with how Christians view the Bible. The Bible has a bunch of parables in them- they are used to illustrate various messages. The Bible is viewed as being divinely inspired- not like in Islam where it is regarded as being word for word, the actual word of God.
Fitnah is worse than killing? People like you are a danger to society. It’s a shame that someone like you is living in a Western country- you belong in the Stone Age.
Jen says
And the PC/MC thing you mentioned – there are a lot of churches were you do not need “membership” to attend. The doors are unlocked in the church all day long. Anybody off the street can walk in there, regardless of whether there is a church service running. Before this issue of gay people became a “global issue” that everyone talked about, these churches had their doors unlocked. Not all churches ask attendees to tithe- they don’t even have a clue who their attendees are unless they are a small church and the individual makes themselves known.
I’m sure living in Europe, you probably know all of this already. Your religion with Muhammad is satanic – you cannot expect better from its scumbag followers.
ibn Muslim says
> Your religion with Muhammad is satanic – you cannot expect better from its scumbag followers.
That’s a low punch. Islam was overall a positive force in human history.
Vivienne Leijonhufvud (goldie) says
What about freedom of Speech? Am I to assume you are a “Moderate Moslem” or are you taking the piss?
In answer to your question on freedom of Speech where in Islam is there freedom of Speech? You lot are so two faced words fail me! You want freedom to take away every one else freedom. Ain’t gonna work sunshine, you’ve shot yourselves in the foot. Girls are coming back to Europe from IS with horror stories so foul the world will finally have to take notice and rid your pagan stinking religion from the planet.
duh_swami says
they’ll continue to degrade their religion and cast a big shadow over all Muslims.
They can’t degrade their religion by faithfully following it’s edicts. And why not cast a shadow over all Mahoundians?
They all share membership in the shahada club and everything that means.
Jerry says
“In the name of Allah, if you dare say that Islam is not peaceful we shall kill you!”
Who is that Allah? In the name of the fake Prophet?
In the name of Allah and the fake Prophet it is perfectly permissible to kill people of they don’t give you their money as long as you label them unbelievers, apostates, hypocrites Jews, Christians, Hindus, Shiites if you happen to be Sunny, or Sunnys if you happen to be Shiite.
It is also perfectly to groom six year old girls to be you sex slaves and repeatedly rape nine year old girls and call it a marriage.
It is also crime against Allah to have a loving relationship between two adult consenting males, but forced buggery of unconsenting captive male toddlers is perfectly Islamic.
Now, was it Allah who invented this Satanic system, or simply it was an Arab Psychopath who invented such a concept of Allah and such an evil Satanic religion.
Bugger HBO and his and ISIL’s “Holly” Qur’an
Long live the Paedophilia Kahlifate.
p says
“The Satanic Verses” were admitted, by Mohammad, to have been inspired by the Devil.
How do you ever again trust a ‘prophet ‘ who tells you this?
Salman Rushdie’s crime was his modest proposal/novel: that the whole thing (Koran) was so ‘inspired’ [by Satan].
Jacko says
I’m sure that those threats of death against Twitter staff were directed in the most spiritual, peaceful way possible.
logdon says
So far the western beheadee’s have been expendibles or useful idiots.
Despite all the faux hand wringing, a British soldier, a taxi driver or journalist’s lives are neither here nor there in the grand scheme of Islamising the planet.
This is the grand scheme in which the EU, Cameron and Obama seem so somnolent about but in reality cannot be so naive.
Each has a different motive. Cameron whores for Muslim votes. The EU it’s Eurabian dream and Obama his obvious Muslim affiliated background but the end result is a tsunami of lies and risible whitewash.
However they cannot keep the lid down on a furiously boiling pot of revived caliphate and islamic supremacist dreams.
Whether the actions of IS sadists , the rape crisis in Britain, Europe’s ‘youth’ catastrophe of torched cars and attacks on police and the MB infiltration of the US governmental and academic establishment, Islam is showing its true face and at last people are awakening to the truth.
These head honcho’s are PC to the bone and multiculturalism and cultural marxism is branded into their souls but they say that nothing clarifies the mind like the prospect of imminent execution and thus a twitter CEO faces his own looking over the shoulder nemesis.
Maybe it will awaken them to the fact that Islam is on the rampage and the rule book is being torn up daily by these savages who will stop at nothing including loss of their own lives in the pursuit of jihad glory.
Eventually something has to give and maybe when the truth of Islam really touches the liberal opinion makers lives, action will have to be taken.
It’s either that or or they and us go down not with a roar, but a pathetic whimper.