From Hot Air via Allahpundit:
Nice work by McQ and MEMRI to shine a light on some of the rats running around in our basement. Yet another case of primitive ideology exploiting cutting-edge western technology, except this time they’re doing it from bases inside America. McQ gives the ISPs the benefit of the doubt by noting that most probably can’t read Arabic. In light of YouTube’s tolerance for jihadi snuff videos and the fact that it’s abundantly clear from the visual elements what the sites are about, I’m less charitable. I wonder if the feds don’t prefer to have them on American servers, though: it must make it a hell of a lot easier to find out who’s accessing the pages than it would if they were hosted in Saudi Arabia. That was the military’s stated rationale, in fact, for letting the insurgent satellite network in Iraq continue to operate. Bad for propaganda but good for intel.
If, as McQ suggests, Congress does do something then they’ll have to deal with First Amendment claims (which hopefully wouldn’t pose much of a problem) and the economic impact of forcing businesses to hire cybercops to police for this. I can think of one person off the top of my head with the passion and experience to start a very lucrative practice. Okay, two people. Okay, three.
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Thanks to 1389 for alerting me to this story.
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As long as they exist we can tell what they are up to. Actually I think those jihadi videos on You Tube are a fabulous way of demonstrating to the idiots who don’t believe we are in a major battle. What we are actually up against. I say keep them up.
I have to agree. I believe the aversion of the the MSM to actually showing the reality of our dead soldiers at the hands of Iranian and Syrian and Saudi agents is proof that there is a political agenda at work. God forbid the American public actually come to realize that they are being played for fools and dhimmis by the Islamic world, which is for all intents and purposes, allied against the West.
I will have to start adding links to more hardboiled video footage here at the Anvil this year. I tire of this “all talk, no action” approach on the anti-jihad blogosphere. I put out a tangible way to address the Islamist threat like Boycott Islam and the vast majority of readers over at Jihad Watch have pretty well ignored the idea. That tells me something and I will be writing an article on that subject soon.
The general apathy should not be surprising. People just want to bitch because it is the easiest thing to do. So, they dutifully log on to their favorite forums every day to get news on the latest Islamikaze outrage, hurl some stupid insults and impotent threats in the comments section, and then… nothing. I really admire the dedication of the legion of knuckleheads who hang out at the big sites and waste their time commenting year after year after year. Most of them don’t seem to realize that disrupting the Islamikazes’ sources of income is an effective counter-Jihad measure: what’s a poor Islamikaze to do if he doesn’t have the money to pay for ammo, guns, bomb-making material, food, rent, bills, Internet services, lawyers, and myriad other expenses required to operate in a capitalistic society? The recent Fort Dix case proves how effective a boycott can be: the Jihad pizza business implicated went kaput in a mere few days. All we need to do is to build up enough momentum to get this thing going.
Excellent points; you almost read my mind when it comes to how I feel about the commenting at Jihad Watch, LGF, Michelle Malkin, HotAir etc. And that reality surrounding the demise of “jihad” pizza serves as a perfect example of what boycott can accomplish. And that also brings up something that I want people to look out for — Muslims love to run pizza parlors because they can be mistaken for Italians/Sicilians by the casual onlooker, and because they can be lucrative businesses that remain fairly low-profile. I remember one from my hometown in fact.
So, does Muhammad Yada Yada own the local pizzeria? Send me a business card scan to prove it and I’ll even put the Muslim pizza-pie makers on the boycott list!