NEWS JUNKIE POST
May 3, 2010 at 2:13 amInternet Hate Sites Jump 20 Percent In One Year
The Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance released a report recently titled Digital Terrorism and Hate 2010. It documents a 20 percent spike in Hate and Terror groups, sites, and games on the internet over the course of the last year.
According to CNET news, there are now 11,500 different sites, networks, and forums that directly promote hate and terror on the internet. This is the 12th year the report has been released.
One Facebook group openly calls for death to the gays. Another one attracts fans who hate “faggots, whores, and cops.” A Facebook poll (now deleted) asked whether President Barack Obama should be killed.
One of the games called Border Patrol has the user shoot Mexican stereotypes at the border, including villains such as the “drug smuggler”, Mexican Nationalist, and the “Breeder”. In another game, the objective is to bomb victims of the Haiti earthquake.
One forum posting in Arabic detailed instructions for people wanting to carry out Jihad operations in the United States.
People are listening. Jihad Jane utilized YouTube and MySpace in her quest to kill the Swedish cartoonist who depicted Mohammed. James von Brunn, the man who shot up the Holocaust Memorial Museum kept a Web site called the Holy Western Empire and posted on the FreeRepublic.
One White Nationalist website whose stated goal is “the creation of a Jew-free, racially exclusive White ethnostate in North America” even went so far as to brag about the findings of the report. In a call to arms, they instructed their readers to “start exploiting social media to get our message out.” They are specifically targeting Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Twitter, and Youtube.
Despite the rise in right wing hate in America as demonstrated by the top 50 conservative websites, the explosion of hate sites on the internet is a worldwide phenomena. CNN reports,
“The spike is not in traditional Web sites in the United States,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “It’s more global and almost all in the social-networking area.”
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“James von Brunn, the man who shot up the Holocaust Memorial Museum”
Von Brunn most likely never shot up the museum. Read the details–
http://rex84.ipbfree.com/index.php?showtopic=1817
There are hate sites on both sides of every question. If you read Spanish, you can see MECHA and other sites on the Arizona question. You’ll never see those on CNN, though, and probably not on Fox. My Chinese friends have translated PRC sites, my Christian-Arab-American friends have shown me Syrian Muslim sites, there are Indian/Muslim and Indian/Hindu sites that are worse than anything I have seen short of the KKK–etc.
While you are trying to be all peace and love, there are people who hate you because you are American, white/black/hispanic, Christian/Jew–and I’m not even getting into the Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Filipino/Javanese/Sarawak/New Guinea Axis.
BTW, have you seen Palestinian children’s TV? There will never be peace.
Never.
There are those in history who said the same thing about city-states being at peace, and before that tribal nations not warring against each other, and in prehistory, there were skeptics about peaceful relations between small bands of humans. Today we have supra-national states that live at peace with each other. It would have been unimaginable that a nation like the US could exist as a unified body 3000 years ago. Peace is attainable, but it is a very, very long term objective.
I have traveled on the ground in some very dangerous places in the world on a shoestring budget and with no support network, and am very well aware of the dangers. I have been threatened in inner city areas, east Jerusalem, and the American South for instance. Add to this the hatemongers who deliberately try to cause conflict for such reasons as greed and racial beliefs. These people must be opposed if the world is ever to advance towards a more peaceful state of being.
Good. I am glad there exists a place were everyone has the right to speak how they will. Even though I don’t support these baseless hate sites I do support freedom even the freedom to hate each other.
Just a small correction to your article. The cartoonist, which you refer to as Swedish, was Danish Kurt Westergaard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Westergaard). Keep your facts accurate. Would be same as saying USA and Canada is the same…
Jihad Jane (colleen LaRose) did not target the Danish Cartoonist Kurt Westergaard who did the Mohammed cartoons for Jyllands-Posten in Denmark. Wikipedia records her Swedish target:
“One of her co-conspirators allegedly identified Lars Vilks, a Swedish artist who had outraged some Muslims for having made a drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad’s head on the body of a dog, as a target, and directed her on March 22, 2009, to go to Sweden, to find and kill him in a way that will frighten “the whole Kufar [non-believer] world”.[3] She responded writing: “I will make this my goal till I achieve it or die trying”, according to her indictment.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_LaRose
I can’t wait to see how many people are targeted on the 1st International “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day” on May 20th.
Remember-for eight years dissent was patriotic. Nowadays if you oppose anything Obama does it’s “hate speech”! Well, guess what, there are plenty of us in the middle politically, can hardly be classified as right wing, and we’re not happy. We are not going to sit down and shut up either. However, other than the war protesters and morons throwing things and rioting in the streets, we’ll choose to be heard at the ballot box starting this November.
So you thing they’re biased? On what basis? They seem to be focused on those who advocate violence. I wouldn’t think they would include those who they simply disagree with, unless I had some sort of persecution complex.
You mean like this?
http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_15005022?nclick_check=1
Make no excuses for any of it on either side of the party line. Both are playing Americans like fiddles and guess what? Americans are dancing to the tune without even so much as a WTF is going on. The feral government continuously oversteps its Constitutional mandate and Americans still say “Duh, what is going? Support this or that view point and never even stop to think that what they are advocating is one less freedom nor… when you ask them do they care or they try to rationalize slavery to a feral government..”
Did you even read the article?
“The spike is not in traditional Web sites in the United States…”
As much as right wingers try to pretend they are “independents” or “middle grounders” (not necessarily saying you by the way), the fact is it is predominantly the ultra-conservative base of the Republican Party that is most upset about not getting their way for once. The midterms are a long ways away too. A lot can happen in that time.