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Web-based Jihadism in America

by Jonathan Schanzer  •  Oct 15, 2007 at 8:49 am  •  updated Oct 15, 2007 at 9:01 am

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2007/10/web-based-jihadism-in-america

The New York Times ran a piece today about al-Qaeda's web partisans in the U.S., including a 21-year-old American named Samir Khan who runs a blog from his parents' home in North Carolina, where he broadcasts messages of violent Islamist groups.

His site features "glad tidings" from a North African terrorist whose group killed 31 Algerian troops. He posted an English translation of a scholarly tract arguing for violent jihad. He lists hundreds of links to secret sites featuring pro-insurgency videos from Iraq.

This is what al-Qaeda calls the "Islamic jihadi media." Terrorism experts believe there are 100+ U.S. sites offering jihadist views.

Al-Qaeda is not the only terrorist group with a complex online PR network. For more on the Hamas network, see this recent inFocus Quarterly piece by Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa Lappen.

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