NC Lizards, beware! North Carolina Web Site Said to Be ‘Gateway Drug’ To Terror
There are links, etc. Please read it all..coming to a town near you, G-d forbid. Are there any laws against a blog like this?
When former Guantanamo inmate Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi blew up an Iraqi police station — and himself — in April, a U.S.-based Web site was quick to post a reaction.
“This is what you call a success story,” Revolution.Muslimpad said of the homicide attack, which killed six. It described al-Ajmi as a hero, a “martyrdom bomber” who sacrificed “his life for the sake of Islam.”
The site is believed to be the brainchild of a 22-year-old American Samir Khan of Charlotte, N.C.
When the blog, also called “The Ignored Puzzle Pieces of Knowledge,” listed its top “scholars of Islam” and people to “take knowledge from,” it wasn’t hard to notice that the list of 63 names contained mostly known terrorists — including Usama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The site provides links to their works, all translated into English.
Revolution.Muslimpad’s sleek, modern style includes collections of the latest videos of U.S. military Humvees exploding from roadside bombs in Iraq, as well as pro-jihad messages aimed at radicalizing readers.
But terror experts say it is unique because it is written in English for a Western audience and makes accessible radical Islamic content and context found mainly on Arabic-language sites.
“This Web site is one of the premiere English-language sites promoting terrorism,” said cyberterrorism expert Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Jewish human rights group the Wiesenthal Center.
On Thursday Cooper presented a report on Capitol Hill on the dangers Internet sites like Revolution.Muslimpad pose to young, impressionable Muslims. His report, “Digital Terrorism and Hate 2.0,” references the Web site four times as an example of how Islamic extremists recruit for Al Qaeda.
Part of the Revolution.Muslimpad’s power comes from the context and interpretation of the radical messages, which experts say offer dangerous inspiration[…]