Wanted: Americans to join Al Qaeda
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Al-Qaeda is getting better at using the Internet to tempt Americans into joining their cause. And that increases the threat of homegrown terrorism in the US, a Senate committee warned today.
In a report, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, urged the Government to return fire with a co-ordinated response.
“By speaking directly to potential followers in the United States, al-Qaeda and others are able to control their message, suppress dissent, and offer a hateful worldview that dictates, based on a perversion of the Islamic faith, that violence is the only remedy to rectify perceived wrongs,” the senators wrote.
Left unchecked, it’s likely that such enlistment messages will succeed in convincing individuals in the US to carry out terrorist attacks, they continued.
How about you guys just disconnnect this whole internet tubes thingy from the rest of the world? It’ll safe us loads of spam, so we’ll be happy to see you go as well.
This reading is surprisingly accurate: “By speaking directly to potential followers in the United States, the Bush Administration and others are able to control their message, suppress dissent, and offer a hateful worldview that dictates, based on a perversion of the Christian faith, that violence is the only remedy to rectify perceived wrongs.”