Your Typical E-Surgent
E-Surgent losers usually dwell in Mommy’s basement.
One of my most popular videos when I first started at LiveLeak was entitled “Internet Jihad.” It was about guys kind of like the one in this article. Click on the title to watch the classic Bash vid. I put it up on You Tube because some glitch messed up the original on LiveLeak. Probably an E-Surgent, heh heh.
Little bitches.
~Bashman
When Osama bin Laden issued his videotaped message to the American people last month, a young jihad enthusiast went online to help spread the word. “America needs to listen to Shaykh Usaamah very carefully and take his message with great seriousness,” he wrote on his blog. “America is known to be a people of arrogance.”
Unlike Mr. bin Laden, the blogger was not operating from a remote location. It turns out he is a 21-year-old American named Samir Khan who produces his blog from his parents’ home in North Carolina, where he serves as a kind of Western relay station for the multimedia productions of violent Islamic groups.
In recent days, he has featured “glad tidings” from a North African militant leader whose group killed 31 Algerian troops. He posted a scholarly treatise arguing for violent jihad, translated into English. He listed hundreds of links to secret sites from which his readers could obtain the latest blood-drenched insurgent videos from Iraq.
His neatly organized site also includes a file called “United States of Losers,” which showcased a recent news broadcast about a firefight in Afghanistan with this added commentary from Mr. Khan: “You can even see an American soldier hiding during the ambush like a baby!! AllahuAkbar! AllahuAkbar!”
Mr. Khan, who was born in Saudi Arabia and grew up in Queens, is an unlikely foot soldier in what Al Qaeda calls the “Islamic jihadi media.” He has grown up in middle-class America and wrestles with his worried parents about his religious fervor. Yet he is stubborn. “I will do my best to speak the truth, and even if it annoys the disbelievers, the truth must be preached,” Mr. Khan said in an interview.
While there is nothing to suggest that Mr. Khan is operating in concert with militant leaders, or breaking any laws, he is part of a growing constellation of apparently independent media operators who are broadcasting the message of Al Qaeda and other groups, a message that is increasingly devised, translated and aimed for a Western audience.
Terrorism experts at West Point say there are as many as 100 English language sites with Mr. Khan’s, which claims 500 regular readers, among the more active. While their reach is difficult to assess, it is clear from a review of extremist material and interviews that militants are seeking to appeal to young American and European Muslims by playing on their anger over the war in Iraq and the image of Islam under attack.
Tedious Arabic screeds are reworked into flashy English productions. Recruitment tracts are issued in multiple languages, like a 39-page, electronic, English version of a booklet urging women to join the fight against the West.
There are even online novellas like “Rakan bin Williams,” about a band of Christian European converts who embraced Al Qaeda and “promised God that they will carry the flag of their distant brothers and seek vengeance on the evil doers.”
Militant Islamists are turning grainy car-bombing tapes into slick hip-hop videos and montage movies, all readily available on Western sites like YouTube, the online video smorgasbord.
“It is as if you would watch a Hollywood movie,” said Abu Saleh, a 21-year-old German devotee of Al Qaeda videos who visits Internet cafes in Berlin twice a week to get the latest releases. “The Internet has totally changed my view on things.”
Full NYT article by Michael Moss & Souad Mekhennethere HERE
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99% percent of the time I just ignor them because its the attention they want…and nothing pisses them off more than dismissing them…and thats because, they don’t matter or even exist, capiche
October 14th, 2007 at 10:50 pmIs that a guy or a diesel dyke trying to be a guy?
October 14th, 2007 at 11:12 pmJihadist wanna be? More like a Rosie O’Donnell wanna be.
I bet his mommy took the picture before they went to the prom together.
How could he claim to be so knowledegable about people never having known people.
October 15th, 2007 at 3:11 amI’ll just bet that this E-Surgent’s mommy is proud of him…
These pissants have zero effect for their cause in the grand scheme of things except to piss off a few patriots. One day a patriot may find them and their young lives will be changed forever or ended suddenly.
October 15th, 2007 at 3:18 amCheck out the PC, Monitor and Printer. That picture is at least 15 years old. Dollars to donuts that’s a 286 processor with about 64K memory. The printer is a dot matrix. Whoever that is in the picture, he ain’t no Johnny Jihad…LOL. Bashman, I know it’s just an example of what they may look like and I HOPE they can only afford that kind of gear. If so, we win!!!!
October 15th, 2007 at 5:49 am“…a young jihad enthusiast…”
Isn’t there another word for this - “Democrat”?
October 15th, 2007 at 5:56 amDamn, what is that an 80286 or 386 with a dot-matrix printer attached?
October 15th, 2007 at 6:26 amI wonder how highly this guy would think of Al Qaeda after they removed those two fingers holding that cigarette?
October 15th, 2007 at 2:55 pmA fairly common AQI practice.