Tag: EXTREMISTS

A crazed pro-choice pro-life advocate in North Carolina will plead guilty to charges of using Facebook to spread information on how to make and use a bomb. Twenty-six-year-old Justin Carl Moose posted a series of links and instructions for constructing explosive devices to his Facebook page. As the AP reports, Moose also declared himself a "freedom fighter" in one status update, and regularly ...

Yesterday, YouTube suddenly purged its site of hundreds of videos featuring Anwar al-Awlaki, a high-profile Islamic cleric who used the video-sharing platform to issue calls for jihadist violence against the U.S. The American-born al-Awlaki is currently based in Yemen, and has been tied to Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, Christmas Day bomber Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab and Faisal Shazad (the man ...

When the newest version of 'Medal of Honor' hits living rooms on October 12th, users will still be able to spend hours of their lives shooting at each other in a hostile, virtual rendering of Afghanistan. One thing they won't be able to do, though, is play for the Taliban, as producer Electronic Arts, has now decided to pull the highly controversial option from the game's multi-player feature. ...

If you happen to be a fan of the Taliban, you may now have another thing to worry about besides your psychological well-being: hackers. As Wired reports, a Taliban-endorsed, online jihadi forum has apparently come under cyber-siege from people who, shock of shocks, disagree with what the radical Islamic organization espouses. Abu al-Aina'a al-Khorasani, the administrator of the belligerent forum ...

A Pakistani court has ordered the government to block access to Facebook due to a contest involving images of the Prophet Muhammad, and has also asked that the foreign ministry investigate the roots of the competition. The government has complied, telling ISPs in the country to block Facebook and any other site displaying caricatures of the prophet, but the sites have not received court orders as ...

Warning: Due to the nature of the subject, this post contains offensive language. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a watchdog and civil rights advocacy group, released a report identifying members of the U.S. military proudly displaying their racial extremist views online. The report outlines a disturbing trend of recruiting efforts by right wing extremists within the military, and the ...