maintaining the status quo is an invitation for the next unspeakable terrorist outrage. --- maintaining US and UK intervention in the middle east and demonizing muzzies will insure continued terrorist attacks.
On May 23, 3:31 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/23/biggest-battlefield-in-terr... > **** Biggest battlefield in terror war is on the Internet**** > > By Rabbi Abraham > Cooper<http://www.foxnews.com/archive/author/rabbi-abraham-cooper/index.html> > **** > > Published May 23, 2013**** > > FoxNews.com**** > > - **** > > **· **** ** > > - > > <http://video.foxnews.com/v/2402378256001/graphic-video-shows-suspect-...> > **** > > GRAPHIC video shows suspect in aftermath of London > attack<http://video.foxnews.com/v/2402378256001/graphic-video-shows-suspect-...> > **** > > - > > <http://video.foxnews.com/v/2402183598001/florida-shooting-possibly-li...> > **** > > Florida shooting possibly linked to Boston bombing > suspects<http://video.foxnews.com/v/2402183598001/florida-shooting-possibly-li...> > **** > > - > > <http://video.foxnews.com/v/2378707263001/lieberman-boston-bombings-co...> > **** > > Lieberman: Boston bombings could likely have been > prevented<http://video.foxnews.com/v/2378707263001/lieberman-boston-bombings-co...> > **** > > There is one war that the terrorists are winning and if we don’t act, more > Boston-style massacres, more horrific atrocities on the streets of > democratic nations, like the unspeakable beheading Wednesday in London-- > and worse— are inevitable. > > The battlefield is the Internet’s dynamic world of social networking where > the most popular technologies have been leveraged to provide unprecedented > access to vast libraries of how-to- tutorials on terrorism. > > This was the key finding of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Digital Terrorism > and Hate Project which was recently presented at a Capitol Hill briefing > co-sponsored with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce > (R-Calif.) and ranking minority member Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.).**** > > Today, Islamists have created an online culture that spawns ‘lone wolf’ > terrorists on steroids.**** > > Before the carnage at the Boston Marathon in April shocked the world, our > 2013 report had highlighted Inspire, Al Qaeda’s magazine and other online > publications that provided the recipes for the pressure cooker bombs and > radio signals the Tsarnaev brothers used to murder and maim so many > innocent people.**** > > Our researchers work only from open sources and are currently monitoring > some 20,000 problematic hate and terror-related sites. But you don’t need > to be the CIA or MI5 to see the clear trends:**** > > Today, Islamists have created an online culture that spawns ‘lone wolf’ > terrorists on steroids. With a special emphasis on online forums and social > networking, online gurus of hate like the late Anwar al Awlaki validate and > supercharge violent theological dogma targeting the United States, other > western democracies, Israel and Russia. **** > > Increasingly the "true believer" is being told they don’t have to travel to > the Afghanistan/Pakistan region for > training<http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/23/biggest-battlefield-in-terr...>and > indoctrination, they can get it all online. > > Let’s be clear. We are not talking about hate speech—there’s plenty of KKK > and neo-Nazi type hate online—but about the growing existential threat from > highly motivated and organized terrorists that must be dealt with. > > In the past few months, I have met with intelligence and police officials > on three continents, all of whom have the impossible task of keeping their > citizens safe from terrorist attacks and finding the virtual (lone wolf) > needle in the haystack. > > So what can we do to degrade the terrorists’ virtual bases?**** > > For starters we need the collective attention of the Internet community > itself. > > We have begun to grade the Internet giants on how they deal with digital > terror and hate. **** > > The Wiesenthal Center has given Facebook an A- because of their no- > nonsense terms of usage, their transparency and the fact that they have two > teams -- one in Silicon Valley and the other in Ireland -- who are > generally responsive to our concerns and who are forging their own > technological firewalls against online bigotry. **** > > YouTube has barely earned a C-, for while they seem to have a good written > policy, far too many do-it-yourself, how-to-terror videos still populate > the giant online video provider. **** > > Twitter has earned an F for its failure to provide transparency and a quick > response to the proliferation of hate hashtags and links to terrorism > libraries. > > If we are to have any hope that we can degrade and thwart future lone-wolf > style terror attacks, we will need to create a new voluntary coalition that > brings law enforcement, homeland > security<http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/23/biggest-battlefield-in-terr...>, > Internet giants and human rights groups to the table. **** > > Will such deliberations work? I am not sure. But one thing is certain: > maintaining the status quo is an invitation for the next unspeakable > terrorist outrage.**** > > *Rabbi Abraham Cooper is > associate<http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/23/biggest-battlefield-in-terr...>Dean > of the Simon > Wiesenthal > Center<http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=6212365>in > Los Angeles. Follow the Simon Wiesenthal Center on > Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/simonwiesenthalcenter> and on > Twitter<https://twitter.com/#!/simonwiesenthal> > .* -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. 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