Monday, October 15, 2007

Home-grown Web site funnels Islam's extremist views to world

Another case of "Enemy Within". This article outlines the activities of a young man who uses the internet to spread Jihadi propaganda. The Article calls him an American, but also says "Born in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, Khan was 7 when his family moved to New York City and settled into Queens." There is no mention that he ever became a citizen. Perhaps deportation is in order.
FROM SFGATE.COM:
Home-grown Web site funnels Islam's extremist views to world

North Carolina man one of new breed of online jihad backers
Michael Moss,Souad Mekhennet, New York Times
Monday, October 15, 2007
When Osama bin Laden issued his videotaped message to the American people last month, a young jihad enthusiast went online to help spread the word.
"America needs to listen to Shaykh Usaamah very carefully and take his message with great seriousness," he wrote on his blog, referring to bin Laden by an alternative spelling. "America is known to be a people of arrogance."
Unlike bin Laden, the blogger was not operating from a remote location. It turns out he is a 21-year-old American named Samir Khan who produces his blog from his parents' home in North Carolina, where he serves as a kind of Western relay station for the multimedia productions of violent Islamic groups.
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