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Jihad in Blog?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/us/15net.html?_r=2&pagewanted=2&hp&oref=slogin


Samir Khan is a twenty-one year old who is originally from Saudi Arabia but was raised in Queens, New York, and apparently he has been acting as a medium for Jihad activity in the United States. Khan has been using his blog to relay messages from extremists in the Middle East and to incite Muslim youths in America. His site includes commentary on militant activities and derogatory statements about America, some examples being the blog entitles “United States of Losers” and calling an American soldier a “baby” when he was photographed taking cover during a firefight.

Khan’s blog is not the only one of its kind and is part of a growing utilization of the internet for the purpose of uniting and communicating between different types of terrorist and anti-American organizations.

As far as my personal opinion on the matter, I don't know that I have fully formed one yet. I for one have never thought of the possibility of terrorism on the internet. I knew that videos were being released by extremist leaders but I somehow thought that those videos were not making it to America. I suppose I have been naive and I am disconcerted to think that an American citizen is actually involved in facilitating the distribution of these videos to the masses.

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