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The following report was recently published by the Scotsman. The whole idea that Muslims are being recruited to extremist groups via facebook is ridiculous. It seems that today, reading things makes you a terrorist.
People, if a white british person read neo-nazi sites discussing skull sizes, destryoing britsh mosques using explosives etc...would they become a terror suspect? I think not. Surely, even if a neo-nazi was arressted under such charges the whole story would be kept away from the masses. No?
You dont even have to take my word for it, it's already happened. In fact what happened was actually much worse!
David Jackson and Robert Cottage from Nelson, Lancashire were caught with chemicals, explosives, rocket launchers, biological suits, BNP literature, recipes for making bombs excerpted from the anarchists handbook (which alone is evidence enough to get a young british muslim 28 days in Belmarsh prison these days) and much more. It was said to be the largest find of its kind in the UK.
The two were NOT charged under any terrorism laws. (I will post some links relating to this asap).
It is also worth noting that the story was reported only in small regional papers, local to the area in which the incident occured. The only other people who picked up the story were even smaller papers aimed at minority groups. The most exposure the story found was probably when Alex Jones posted the story on Infowars.com
That aside in my opinion being a young British Muslim, the majority of other Muslims who read these Facebook pages will be looking to find an insight into why fellow 'muslims' feel this way and will have no intentions to take over the west as many in the government and media would now have us believe.
Thats assuming those who created these groups actually were radical muslims.
It seems as one person noted on Infowars.com, this could well be 'another government move to control the internet'.
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ARTICLE:
Miles Johnson
The Scotsman
February 17, 2008
RADICAL British Jihadist groups are using Facebook and other social networking sites to recruit members and distribute extremist literature.
A private Facebook group called Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama’ah, the name of a successor organisation to the banned extremist group Al Muhajiroun, has been operating since early 2007.
The Facebook group has links posted to extremist literature by the jailed radical preachers Abu Hamza al-Misri and Abu Qutada calling for the waging of armed jihad against the British and American governments. There is also literature demanding the expulsion of any Muslim who votes in elections or “provides assistance” to the ‘kuffar’, or non-believer.
Five young British Muslims were freed last week after their conviction for downloading and sharing literature from extremist websites was quashed by the Appeal Court.
The Lord Chief Justice said there was no proof of terrorist intent. The Home Office is still considering the landmark case, which lawyers for the men say has huge implications for counter-terrorism prosecutions.
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