Boogedy Boogedy Boo
The NYT reports that bloggers are spreading jihad in the US.
“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.
I guess we’re all supposed to wet ourselves now. From scornful, mocking laughter, in my case.
I’m really not sure what to make of this abysmal propaganda piece, which seems to go out of its way to tie bloggers (especially those critical of the US’s role and tactics in Iraq) to Osama Bin Forgotten. How soon before some genius like Michele Malkin or the boobs at Powerline begin declaring that all online commentary that’s unfavorable to the US constitutes jihad. Worse, how soon until the FBI or the NSA or Pweznit Signing Statement decide the same?
Spare me the soiled underpants, wingnuts: as everyone knows, the answer to bad speech is MORE speech. If the US’s message is so weak that it can’t stand up to Osama the Cave-Dwelling Stick Figure, then maybe the US has to craft a better message.
Color me unimpressed by Michael Moss, Souad Mekhennet, Margot Williams, and Hoda Osman, who would be better off writing ad copy for the adult diaper industry.
Depends: For When You’re Really Scared of Muslims.
[Clever doctored image on the way. For some reason wordpress often forgets how to upload, and this is one of those times.]
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