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Sample image from just one of today's selection of Jihadi videos marked for removal by the excellent Smackdown Corps team
The New York Daily News is this morning running an editorial about a Islamic terror tactic that YOU can help fight in conjunction with one of our fellow counterjihad sites:
Radical Islamist fanatics are turning YouTube into their personal broadcast platform with disturbingly accelerating frequency. Their videos illustrate how jihadists are exploiting the Internet to inspire violence, and they demand increased vigilance by the Google-owned company.
The Middle East Media Research Institute this week flagged postings by, among others, America’s Jihad Jane and Anwar Al-Awlaki, the Yemen-based cleric whose involvement in terror plots prompted the U.S. to target him for assassination.
After his arrest, would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad is reported to have cited Al-Awlaki as a guiding light. And a Pakistani Taliban group posted a video on YouTube to claim authorship of the plot:
“We, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, very bravely claim the responsibility for this attack in America. And we congratulate Muslims on this.”
Days later, the group posted a video with a chilling message:
“The time is very near when our fedayeen will attack the American states in their major cities … our fedayeen have penetrated the terrorist America, we will give extremely painful blows to the fanatic America. I request you all to be steadfast and firm in your jihad.”
At press time, the video at tinyurl.com/32nyll9 had been seen 16,000 times.
YouTube hosts more than 2,000 clips of Al-Awlaki’s sermons and lectures. In fact, his first message after going into hiding – titled “To the American Muslims” – was posted on the site:
“To the Muslims in America, I have this to say: How can your conscience allow you to live in peaceful co-existence with a nation that is responsible for the tyranny and crimes committed against your own brothers and sisters?”
YouTube is an interactive broadcast platform without precedent. Extraordinarily popular and valuable, it serves as a global video commons. People all over the planet post more than 24 hours of video every minute.
Given such a massive volume, keeping YouTube free of hate, pornography and incitement to violence is no easy task. Nor is it always simple to bar those ills while permitting images and words that are examples of speech that may be newsworthy or may simply be extreme.
YouTube sets boundaries: “We encourage free speech and defend everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view. But we don’t permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status and sexual orientation/gender identity).”
And: “While it might not seem fair to say you can’t show something because of what viewers theoretically might do in response, we draw the line at content that’s intended to incite violence, encourages or shows dangerous or illegal activities that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death.”
What meaning do these words – “I request you all to be steadfast and firm in your jihad” – have other than as a call to violence? Especially when spoken in the context of administering “extremely painful blows to the fanatic America”?
If speech “which attacks or demeans a group” is barred, why does a YouTube search of “kill the infidels” yield 352 hits? Not all these are exhortations to murder, but some are.
YouTube relies primarily on users to flag objectionable content. Scott Rubin, a spokesman for Google, said company reviewers work 24-7 to respond to complaints and bounce content that violates the rules. They manage to keep the site largely free of pornography. They should focus more closely on barring those who traffic in murder.
The counterjihad community has long been aware of the use of YouTube by the proponents of Islamic jihad. Hidden among the more regular content are thousands of violent – and often gruesome – videos glorifying terrorism, murder and oppression.
These include beheadings, cowardly sniper attacks on coalition solders and ranting mullahs railing against the West’s tolerance and democracy (strange then how so many Muslims want to come to live here).
The good news is that YOU can help eliminate this poison. Sign up at the YouTube Smackdown Corps, using our link in the right hand sidebar.
You will receive alerts on Jihadi videos and information on how you can flag these to YouTube. It works! The Smackdown corps has succeeded in banning tens of thousands of Jihadi videos from YouTube – and are proving to be a highly effective counterterrorism resource.
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Note: Just today, 18 videos were flagged and removed by one group alone and yet, it is a 24-7 job flagging Islamic radical videos, as they each have dozens of accounts and the moment one is booted off You Tube, they open another account within minutes. There are numerous groups fighting Islamic terrorism on You Tube. Bee Sting
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Note: Just today, 18 videos were flagged and removed by one group alone and yet, it is a 24-7 job flagging Islamic radical videos, as they each have dozens of accounts and the moment one is booted off You Tube, they open another account within minutes. There are numerous groups fighting Islamic terrorism on You Tube. Bee Sting
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