Teen Terror on the Web:
Jihadi and Islamist Activities on MySpace.com

By Laura Mansfield.com

You’ve heard about MySpace.com, the social networking site that is commonly used by American teenagers.  You’ve heard about the dangers of MySpace, as one news network after another reported on the prevalence of sexual predators on the system that prey on young teens who give out too much personal information.

But MySpace.com isn’t just popular with sexual predators.

As I reported in my presentation at the America’s Truth Forum Symposium two weeks ago, there is extensive jihadi activity and recruitment underway on MySpace.com.  Teens and young adults may very well be using that system as they plan the next terror attacks on America.

Let’s take a look at what we found as we began to investigate the Jihadi community on MySpace.com.  You’ll be surprised at what we found once we eliminate the obvious jokesters like the one at http://myspace.com/MahmoudAhmadinejad purporting to belong to the Iranian president.

One young man from Seattle, who gives his name as Amin Al-Mujaahid As-Salafi, has a blog that is very disturbing.  The blog, located at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=57660577 contains disturbing audio links, as well as imagery.

One at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=59191340 called Du’a by Abdul Rahman, and in English, sounds absolutely Hitleresque.  The imagery on the blog includes tributes to Bin Laden, Zarqawi, Abu Hamza, and the 19 hijackers from September 11, who it refers to as the “Magnificent 19”.

There are 78 “friends” listed in Amin Al-Mujaahid As-Salafi’s “social network”.

As we began to visit these “friends”, a disturbing pattern emerged.

His friend Rashid Ali, (photo from his blog shown above) describes himself as a 31 year old currently living in Seattle.  He voices similar views to that of Amin Al Mujahid.  Rashid describes his activities on his blog at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=41974211  as follows:

Reading Quran & hadith,Training Hui(Chinese-Muslim)kung-fu, Makoto-Ryu aki-jujitsu, & muay-thai-kick-boxing,NiNjitsu,Penjat-Silat,escrima:Kali/JKD.Target shooting ect. And hanging out with. My Big Bro Imam Rahim

Like his “friend” Amin, Rashid includes jihadi tribute imagery as well as the black flag of jihad on his page.  With over 173 “friends” in his social network, Rashid appears to be part of a wide network of people who share similar sentiments.

One of Rashid’s friends, the owner of another blog shown above (http://www.myspace.com/islamic  ),  claims to be affiliated with the Tawhid and Jihad. This blogger  claims to be from California.  Tawhid and Jihad is the name of the terrorist group that Abu Mus’ab al Zarqawi led.

 

“Warrior”, a  blogger from New York City, proudly displays an image of the Qu’ran with an automatic weapon on his blog site at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=52173031. 

In his comments about himself, he says:

This MySpace is dedicated to all those people who hope for a better tomorow. This MySpace will educate you about Iraq and its strrugles, particulalry Fallujah- Home of the Bravest Fighters ---The Lions Of Fallujah---. Hopefully after viewing this MySpace you will be better informed and "awakened" from your sleep of ignorance -----and finally be able to see the truth. Please after viewing this page, make sure you tell your friends about it...I will not deny a request for friends...because the more friends and the bigger the list ..the more we show our support for the war victims

His sympathies for Osama Bin Laden and other terrorists is apparent as you browse his blog.  The blog includes images of Bin Laden and the 19 hijackers from September 11, as  well as images glorifying Zarqawi and his Qaeda’t al Jihad group, such as the two shown below.  The first image shows the logo of Zarqawi’s group, with the words  “Qaeda’t al Jihad in the Land of the Two Rivers” (Iraq) written in Arabic.

Mohammed, a sixteen year old from Issaquah, WA proclaims “I hate you all!” at the top of his blog at http://www.myspace.com/depressed

He has posted an image showing a nuclear detonation behind a graphic of the US flag.  The caption reads:

You Are 29% American

America: You don't love it or want to leave it. But you wouldn't mind giving it an extreme make over. On the 4th of July, you'll fly a freak flag instead... And give Uncle Sam a sucker punch!

 

This young man is a student at  Issaquah High School.  The image of his blog is shown below:

The blogger “Soldiers of Allah” (logo shown above) describes the group at http://www.myspace.com/soldiersofallah  as follows:

What are we all about?
Soldier of Allah is not a jihad group...
instead we are reminders for those who forgotten
We by no means are using rap to present Islam or promote Islam
We have witness the impact of music on youth today
We are not rap stars and we refuse to be
We are Muslim and only Muslim
We realize this is not the way to revive the omaa but just a tool to motivate Muslim to go to the real source which is Islam
It is Islam that organize our lifes and Islam which shows us the method to revive
We encourage and invite you to listen and think about the ideas that was presented in this CD
Remember we are the next generation of Muslims
and it's an obligation and responsibility of each and every Muslim
to implement as Allah commanded

Soldiers of Allah has 258 people in its “social network”.

Among those is 19 year old Salafi Mujahid, from Chicago.  Salafi Mujahid boasts the following image on his page:

The site also has images glorifying jihadi leader Abu Musa’b al Zarqawi,  Salafi Mujahid claims to be an Architecture major at  College Of Dupage,

Glen Ellyn, IL, who is active in the Muslim Students Association.His MySpace blog is located at  http://www.myspace.com/nabeelsiddiqui  

 

Some of these youth, such as seventeen-year old “Yaqub”, shown above posting under the name of Abu Mujahid (father of the freedom fighter), seem to simply echo Islamist propaganda they’ve heard. Yaqub, from Plainfield, NJ, proclaims “"**Denmark Is messin with the wrong people!!**" on his blog at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=23480938

Others, such as 17-year old Aaron Moore, from West Haven, Connecticut, seem to have developed profound anti-American feelings, as expessed in his blog at   http://www.myspace.com/aaron_moore 

white ppl(or americans)  killed most of the native americansthey caused the trail of tears(deals with the native americans, mostly of the Cherokee nation) then they continue pushing them back on the western front, giving them less and less land so that they eventually had to take refuge on reservations or fight umongst themselves and they in turn called the native americans "savages" and "wild animals" (like the way the do the arabs and muslims, take note)

Americans(or white ppl) didn't just stop there they also brought thousands and thousands(nobody knows the real number cuz the white ppl took so many) of Africans and not only Africans but also native americans and I know I left out other ppl cuz I haven't been properly tought in the american schooling system. And for that I am sorry for the ppl that I missed.  The americans not only enslaved the Africans but also said that slaves weren't humans but only property in the Dred Scott vs. Sanford case.

americans say "all muslims are saveges, or animal beasts" (as they did to the native americans, [see a cycle?]) or the americans also say "ohh, arabs and muslims are almost humans". Well incase you forgot you also said the same thing about black ppl in the 3/5 clause. Slaves were only considered 3/5 of a human being(i.e. "almost human")

and the cruel behavior didn't stop there after the slaves were set free(and also before) there were lynchings(lynch- To execute without due process of law, especially to hang, as by a mob[dictionary.com])of black ppl all over the south and sometimes the north, and these lynchings haven't stopped they still continue even today.

the americans(knowingly or not) support the Israelis, which these Isrealis kill the arabs of Palestine and the american government even created a "fake"(not so fake) 9-11 event, that caused the american ppl to think that it was caused by terrorist, "in the middle east". but what the american ppl forget is that there is terrorism in our own country that doesn't even deal with muslims or middle easterners.

now the inhumanitary behavior still continued after that, they even went so low as to use there racism against spanish ppl and that was in the 1900's.  and they racism still continues today

even women didn't have any writes in america until the 1900's

take notice to all these things and take notice to all the things that I forgot to mention, notice how these americans(white ppl) treat other ppl of diferent cultures, religions, genders, and ppl of a different race, and sexual preference. americans(white ppl) treak gays like they would any other person of another race, or religion or gender, they always discriminate anyone that is different from them or what they're used to.

Others, such as nineteen year old “Islamakazi”, are more explicit, posting at

  http://www.myspace.com/islamakazi  has a countdown clock, counting down the days, hours, and minutes until what it describes as “Iran war (world war iii)”

Along with the “countdown clock” are a wide variety of other images glorifying various jihadi and terrorist leaders, including Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinezhad.

Disturbing jihadi imagery, video, and audio are easily found on MySpace.com on the websites of young girls as well as of older male youth.

 

A young California woman, this one claiming to be eighteen years old and posting under the screenname Islam4Ever, is listed in “3rabiah’s” circle of friends.  Her blog, at http://www.myspace.com/islam4ever  looks like this:

Recruits for Martyrdom?

Are these kids all talk?  There’s no way of knowing.

But MySpace is certainly providing fertile ground for jihadi recruitment, if the words of some of these youth are any example.

Nineteen year old Hemadah from Brooklyn is like many of the other teenagers on MySpace.com.  He tells us he’s 190 pounds, 5’8” tall and a Gemeni of Middle Eastern descent. He tells us his sexual orientation (Hemadah is straight) that he doesn’t drink, he has no children, and he is a college student. We know his birthday (June 17, 1986), and that he has a special love for everything bagels.

Hemadeh even shares his career aspirations:

“I’m goin to college to become a cop, hopefully work my way up as a detective.”

But a look at his Myspace blog (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=43247150)  tells he’s anything but ordinary – at least we hope that his aspiration isn’t the norm for most teenagers in this country.

Hemadeh tells us in his blog how he wants to die:

“AS A MARTYR, IF NOT THAT WAY, THEN WHILE IM PRAYING AND MY HEADS ON THE FLOOR”

He has cute photos of beautiful children, in this case his niece and nephew, along with a photo of himself and of one of “Allah’s soldiers”.

Hemadah is one of a growing number of Muslim youth who are expressing openly their sympathy with martyrdom and jihad.

Twenty-one year old Isa from Fort Worth, TX, also says he wants to die as a martyr on his blog at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=45458527

Twenty-three year old Kareemwazwaz, posting at www.myspace.com/kareemwazwaz,  is even more explicit in his wishes.  Kareem, who posts a photo of Izz el din Qassam on his webpage, tells us the following:

How do you want to Die: a martyr for palestine

What do you want to be when you Grow Up: a martyr for palestine

Mahmoud, a student from University Of California-Santa Cruz, expresses similar sentiments on his MySpace blog at

  http://www.myspace.com/machdarazor.  How does Mahmoud want to die?

“defending something...either my family, my religion, or my country...basically i wanna die a martyr”

Mahmoud apparently enjoys protests, as the following photos show.  (The photo of the “body” with the rock in hand is actually from the UCSC Palestinian Die-In and is dated May 9, 2006). 

 

A seventeen year old girl from California, posting on her blog at http://www.myspace.com/3rabiah  echos the opinions of these two young men.  She says she wants to die “as a Martyr (Shahid)insha'a Allah...”

Eighteen year old Fayyad (aka Fiody) from Oviedo, FL, shown above in an image from his blog, has even bolder aspirations.  The images of half-clothed women on his page might lead one to believe that Fayyad does not hold extremist views.  But how does this young Lebanese-American want to die?  According to his blog at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=4095468, this University of Central Florida student wants to die as a martyr for God or in a huge nuclear explosion

 

Such beliefs are not rare among MySpace.com users.  We’ve identified blogs belonging to over seventy young people who have similar aspirations:  to die as a martyr,

Is one of these seventy young people, who openly aspire to be a martyr in the name of Allah, one of the next wave of terrorists who will attack America?

It appears that there is a lot more to be concerned about than sexual predators on MySpace.com, which has emerged as the most popular social networking site for teens.

 

By the way, when we contacted the FBI regarding the findings presented in this story, we were told all of the above material was “protected free speech”.

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