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Taking the Jihad Online
The Internet has become a tool for terrorist organizations to spread their propaganda and to recruit new, young terrorists. Brig. Gen. John Custer: “I see 16-, 17-year-olds who have been indoctrinated on the Internet turn up on the battlefield. We capture them, we kill them every day in Iraq, in Afghanistan. Without a doubt, the Internet is the single-most important venue for the radicalization of Islamic youth.”
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2 Responses to “Taking the Jihad Online”
When the general says ‘we must do the same’, I hope he is not thinking of Katherine Hughes. The American marketing way is so crass, there isn’t a prayer that it would have an impact.
The only counter message that might work must come from fellow Muslims, scholars of Islam and thinkers, who can post on the Internet in language that is familiar and accepted.
Michael,
Don’t worry, the U.S. government has been working the propaganda front with reckless abandon for quite some time. It’s how we we’re tricked into World War I, Vietnam and Iraq. It’s how we’re kept from seriously questioning our support of Saudi Arabia, a country that is the epicenter of extremist Islam. It’s how we think giving up our rights and morals will make us safer.