Editor’s note: Copied below is a letter to the editor submitted to the Sun City West Independent. You can post your opinions by clicking on “Reply.”
Magazine like terrorists
A new English-language internet magazine has appeared and is likened to Al Qaedaa Vanity Fair.
It is called “Jihad Recollections” and focuses on the terrorist group, its founder, Usami Bin Laden, and how to commit jihad. It also predicts the demise of the United States. It is designed for Americans and designed to get them to convert to Islam and to carry out jihad acts of terror. It is not for British, not for Germans, not for jihadists in the Middle East.
What started out as some angry young men experimenting in their basement has transformed over the past several years into a robust Al Qaeda propaganda outlet right here in America.
It raises the bar for pro-Al Qaeda propaganda in English. Its presentation is flashier than any English-language Al Qaeda propaganda we have seen to date. The publication shows how deeply embedded in the global Al Qaeda movement its editors are. It is published by the Al Fursan Media Foundation, a mysterious organization not capable of being contacted.
Jihad Recollections highlights the terrorist group and the goals of Islamic jihad in a sophisticated and graphically slick presentation similar to any high quality web site. The magazine includes the speeches and writings of Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Articles range from “Four Practical Steps to Expand the Global Jihad” to the “Science Behind Night Vision Technology and Principles of Guerilla Warfare.”
The magazine is a veritable manual on how to carry out terrorism.
For those who thought the election of Barack Obama as president would assuage the militant world, the magazine makes clear that is not the case. To the Muslims who voted for Obama and were optimistic that he would make a positive change, nothing will change except that things could get worse.
Irma Epstein
Sun City West
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