Jihadists Broaden Reach by Launching English-Language Forums, Blogs
As part of their efforts to reach and influence non-Arabic-speaking audiences, Islamists have set up English-language pages on existing Arabic-language forums, and have also launched jihadist blogs in English.[1] An examination of the content of these forum pages and blogs suggests that they are aimed at various audiences in the West, inter alia to influence Western public opinion on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, to enlist support for jihad among Muslims living in the West, and even to encourage these Muslims to carry out martyrdom operations.
The full text of this report is available to MEMRI's Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor Subscribers.
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http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/view ... asp?id=773
Shockingly the website also shows that many other reports were produced during 2006/2007 yet little appears to have been done to prevent jihadists using the internet to recruit innocent and vulnerable people
The Use of the Internet By
Islamic Extremists
Dr. Bruce Hoffman
The RAND Corporation
Before the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
United States House of Representatives
May 4, 2006
A few hours after the first American air strikes against Afghanistan began on 7 October 2001, a
pre-recorded videotape was broadcast around the world. A tall, skinny man with a long, scraggily
beard, wearing a camouflage fatigue jacket and the headdress of a desert tribesman, with an AK-
47 assault rifle at his side, stood before a rocky backdrop. In measured, yet defiant, language,
Usama bin Laden again declared war on the United States. Bin Laden’s dramatic television
appearance provided stunning confirmation of just how sophisticated terrorist communications in
the 21st Century have become. In contrast to the jerky, often amateurish videos or even older
Super-8 film recordings typical of even the more communications savvy terrorists of the past, bin
Laden’s pre-recorded statement was remarkable for both its excellent quality and masterful
timing. Professionally produced, shot, and edited; the clip was masterfully packaged and queued
to go on air as soon as the anticipated U.S. air strikes commenced that fateful Sunday.
For bin Laden and his followers the weapons of terrorism are no longer simply the guns and
bombs that they always have been, but now include the mini-cam and videotape, editing suite
and attendant production facilities; professionally produced and mass-marketed CD-Roms and
DVDs; and, most critically, the lap-top and desk-top computers, CD burners and e-mail accounts,
and Internet and worldwide web access that have defined the information revolution today.
Indeed, in recent years, the art of terrorist communication has evolved to a point where the
terrorists themselves can now control the entire production process: determining the content,
context and medium over which their message is projected; and towards precisely the audience
(or multiple audiences) they seek to reach. The implications of this development are enormous:
challenging the monopoly over mass communication of the terrorist message long exercised by
commercial and state-owned broadcasting outlets. A new information revolution has occurred to
empower these movements with the ability to shape and disseminate their own message in their
own way: enabling them to bypass completely traditional, established media outlets.
You will note that the use of the internet for Islamic propaganda was known as far back as 2001
If America with all it's technology has not been able to come up with a solution to the problem in all those years - there is very little hope of them miraculously coming up with any solution now that will stem the flow of ISIS propaganda
