This could either be genuine supporters of the Islamic State working to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60) even in Johnson City, Tennessee, or non-Muslim hackers thinking it would be cool to present themselves as exponents of what they think is the strong horse.
“Church website hacked by group claiming to ‘love ISIS,'” by Allie Hinds, WJHL.com, January 22, 2015 (thanks to Robert):
On Thursday if you logged onto Westminster Presbyterian Church’s website you’d see the words “I love ISIS and Jihad”, a violent video, and vulgar language.
The church’s pastor Jim Richter said he woke up this morning to an email on his phone from a church member saying the website had been hacked by what appeared to be ISIS supporters.
“I think it’s terrifying, it’s hostile no matter what you say about it,” Marty Conley, who lives in Johnson City said.
A homepage to a church in East Tennessee, with about 200 members is not the first place you think would be vulnerable to a hack from ISIS.
“I thought that was really strange. You don’t think about that type of thing happening in our area, I mean little town Johnson City, Tennessee,” Conley said.
“Frankly I thought it was a little humorous that a little church in Johnson City, Tennessee would get hacked by something that says it’s from ISIS or that they love ISIS, now the website server when I communicated with him seemed to take that very seriously,” Richter said.
He said his team found out his church’s website wasn’t the only one displaying this message.
“They contacted the organization or company that services our website and from them we heard there were a lot of churches apparently and organizations that they serve that by being a web site provider were hacked so it doesn’t appear to be something that is directed at our church,” Richter said…
jihad3tracker says
My guess is this : such an event is NOT from non-Muslims — who don’t have the time / energy / motivation — but rather, these occurrences are actually created by American and European jihadist organizations, along with thousands of their individual activist persons ( think “grass roots level” ) who coordinate for HACK or DDOS attacks.
And that brings up another bit of caution : if anyone here sends emails to the taqiyya-swallowing crowd of academics and clergy who regularly are featured on JW (authoring clueless or guilt-filled apologies and excuses for Islam’s pathology) DO IT WITH A SEPARATE “DISPOSABLE” USERNAME AND PASSWORD ACCOUNT.
Keep your main one or two web mail accounts entirely SEPARATE from personal counter-jihad activities, because there may be hacker harvesting of respondent contact paths and contents. Unfortunately, security cautions get more severe and broad every day.
Jay Boo says
It is probably Obama on Air Force 1 showing off before the new king of Saudi Arabia.
Georg says
This stinks of IS and jihadists to me; it’s consistent with their maturity level.
Salah says
When jihadists hack websites, when they close some Youtube accounts, when they murder unarmed civilians, this means one thing only: the sword of Islam is getting shorter by the day.
They are witnessing the humiliation of their prophet, the open criticism of their “holy” books, the mass conversions from Islam to Christianity or Atheism, and there’s NOTHING they can do to reverse the trend.
They are witnessing the imminent fall of their religion, they are enraged, they are cornered, they don’t know what to do, they are losing their minds.
They are like a dying beast in its last gasp; dangerous, yet dying.
Angry says
Do muslims have the intelligence and expertise to de-crypt computer code in order to hack protected websites? I think not, it was probably a lefty (lefty’s hate Christianity; and Judaism) doing it on behalf of his islamic friends.
albert says
” Do muslims have the intelligence and expertise ” mate you are sadly behind the times, here in Britain the Dhimmi authorities target the Islamic community with special provision for educational and social support of every kind, in muslim areas community centres and internet cafes spring up on every corner equipped with the latest technology all paid for by the government, if you’re British and you want the same for your kids you have to pay for it yourself. In short yes muslims have certainly got the technology to do this.
Charli Main says
Just a 21st century version of what Muslims have being doing for the last 1400 years——-defiling and desecrating the holy places and sites of other religions with the filth of Islam.