Shut off terror TV
An ISIS recruitment video is live on YouTube. Kick it off.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, July 17, 2014, 4:05 AM
Courtesy of Syria’s vicious ISIS Al Qaeda offshoot comes a brand new, slickly produced terrorism recruitment video.
You think you’ve seen exhortations to join jihad? Not like this.
It opens with glorious footage of Canada — and the protagonist, the late Canadian Andre Poulin, telling the story, in English, of how he once was lost, and then was found.
He speaks passionately about how rewarding it is to kill people in the name of Allah, and calls on others to join him in that killing.
You can even watch as Poulin — or Abu Muslim, as he came to be known — wages guerilla war, and dies in battle. Music swells as the camera zooms in on his lifeless face, and the narrator speaks of finding paradise in the hereafter.
So slick is this propaganda, it’s easy to see why the video is gaining worldwide fame — including a spotlight in Wednesday’s New York Times.
Why, then, was it so easy to find in a simple YouTube search Wednesday afternoon?
YouTube guidelines are clear: “Don’t post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making.”
The ISIS recruitment video breaks that rule.
“Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone being physically hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don’t post it.”
The ISIS recruitment video breaks that rule.
“We don’t permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).”
The ISIS recruitment video breaks that rule.
This is not theory; it’s real life and death.
Attorney General Eric Holder says intelligence reports of Syrian terrorists partnering with Yemeni bombmakers to produce new explosives are “more frightening than anything I think I’ve seen as attorney general.”
NYPD counterterror chief John Miller estimates that more than 100 home-grown American Muslims are being trained in Syria to wage war against the West.
Surely, some would eagerly follow the marching orders of Al Qaeda’s Inspire magazine — which is urging its minions to detonate a car bomb at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens.
Yes, YouTube has a gargantuan filtering challenge: Six billion hours are uploaded monthly. But music videos that violate copyright routinely get pulled down.
Why is an enemy call to arms so easy to find?
An ISIS recruitment video is live on YouTube. Kick it off.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, July 17, 2014, 4:05 AM
Courtesy of Syria’s vicious ISIS Al Qaeda offshoot comes a brand new, slickly produced terrorism recruitment video.
You think you’ve seen exhortations to join jihad? Not like this.
It opens with glorious footage of Canada — and the protagonist, the late Canadian Andre Poulin, telling the story, in English, of how he once was lost, and then was found.
He speaks passionately about how rewarding it is to kill people in the name of Allah, and calls on others to join him in that killing.
You can even watch as Poulin — or Abu Muslim, as he came to be known — wages guerilla war, and dies in battle. Music swells as the camera zooms in on his lifeless face, and the narrator speaks of finding paradise in the hereafter.
So slick is this propaganda, it’s easy to see why the video is gaining worldwide fame — including a spotlight in Wednesday’s New York Times.
Why, then, was it so easy to find in a simple YouTube search Wednesday afternoon?
YouTube guidelines are clear: “Don’t post videos showing bad stuff like animal abuse, drug abuse, under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making.”
The ISIS recruitment video breaks that rule.
“Graphic or gratuitous violence is not allowed. If your video shows someone being physically hurt, attacked, or humiliated, don’t post it.”
The ISIS recruitment video breaks that rule.
“We don’t permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).”
The ISIS recruitment video breaks that rule.
This is not theory; it’s real life and death.
Attorney General Eric Holder says intelligence reports of Syrian terrorists partnering with Yemeni bombmakers to produce new explosives are “more frightening than anything I think I’ve seen as attorney general.”
NYPD counterterror chief John Miller estimates that more than 100 home-grown American Muslims are being trained in Syria to wage war against the West.
Surely, some would eagerly follow the marching orders of Al Qaeda’s Inspire magazine — which is urging its minions to detonate a car bomb at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens.
Yes, YouTube has a gargantuan filtering challenge: Six billion hours are uploaded monthly. But music videos that violate copyright routinely get pulled down.
Why is an enemy call to arms so easy to find?
ISIS threatens Iraqi Christians in Mosul: Convert, pay taxes or die
From Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN
updated 5:56 PM EDT, Fri July 18, 2014
An Iraqi Christian prays at the Saint George church on July 1 in Erbil.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Extremists occupying large swaths of Iraq and Syria have issued a threat to Iraqi Christians in the city of Mosul: accept Islam, pay extra taxes to Islamic Sharia courts or face "death by the sword."
Refugees risk all to escape ISIS
The letters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, were distributed in recent days to leaders of the dwindling Christian minority in Iraq's second largest city.
The message added that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has agreed to allow them (Christians who do not agree to convert or pay extra taxes) to leave the embattled city by noon Saturday (5 a.m. ET). After that, the message said, "the only option is the sword."
Militant ISIS jihadists, a Sunni-dominated al Qaeda splinter group, have overrun large parts of Iraq and neighboring war torn Syria over the past months in a violent Islamist insurgency. The militants want to establish an Islamic state, or so-called caliphate, across Sunni areas of both countries.
ISIS already controls hundreds of square miles where state authority has evaporated. It has ignored international borders, establishing a deadly presence from Syria's Mediterranean coast all the way south to Baghdad, making its goal of a caliphate state seemingly within reach.
The magnitude of the crisis is clear from the sharp rise in the death toll over the past two months.
At least 2,400 Iraqis died in violence in June, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq. Of those, the United Nations said more than 1,500 were civilians, including 270 civilian police officers, and almost 900 were members of Iraqi security forces.
U.S. President Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of 300 military advisers to Iraq. More than 200 are already there.
Obama has also ordered a review of Iraqi security forces to determine the best steps to take to help the embattled country. Many Iraqi troops abandoned their posts and fled when faced with attacks from ISIS, which contributed to the defenselessness of major parts of the country and helped fuel the insurgency.
From Hamdi Alkhshali, CNN
updated 5:56 PM EDT, Fri July 18, 2014
An Iraqi Christian prays at the Saint George church on July 1 in Erbil.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- ISIS sends letters to leaders of the dwindling Christian minority in Mosul
- Letters order Christians to accept Islam, pay extra taxes to Sharia courts or face death
- ISIS leader says Christians have until noon Saturday to leave the "caliphate state"
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Extremists occupying large swaths of Iraq and Syria have issued a threat to Iraqi Christians in the city of Mosul: accept Islam, pay extra taxes to Islamic Sharia courts or face "death by the sword."
The letters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, were distributed in recent days to leaders of the dwindling Christian minority in Iraq's second largest city.
The message added that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has agreed to allow them (Christians who do not agree to convert or pay extra taxes) to leave the embattled city by noon Saturday (5 a.m. ET). After that, the message said, "the only option is the sword."
Militant ISIS jihadists, a Sunni-dominated al Qaeda splinter group, have overrun large parts of Iraq and neighboring war torn Syria over the past months in a violent Islamist insurgency. The militants want to establish an Islamic state, or so-called caliphate, across Sunni areas of both countries.
ISIS already controls hundreds of square miles where state authority has evaporated. It has ignored international borders, establishing a deadly presence from Syria's Mediterranean coast all the way south to Baghdad, making its goal of a caliphate state seemingly within reach.
The magnitude of the crisis is clear from the sharp rise in the death toll over the past two months.
At least 2,400 Iraqis died in violence in June, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq. Of those, the United Nations said more than 1,500 were civilians, including 270 civilian police officers, and almost 900 were members of Iraqi security forces.
U.S. President Barack Obama has authorized the deployment of 300 military advisers to Iraq. More than 200 are already there.
Obama has also ordered a review of Iraqi security forces to determine the best steps to take to help the embattled country. Many Iraqi troops abandoned their posts and fled when faced with attacks from ISIS, which contributed to the defenselessness of major parts of the country and helped fuel the insurgency.
