It's called "Jihad Recollections" and is a production of Charlotte, NC al Qaeda supporter Samir Khan's self-styled jihad media company, "as-Fursan"....Less than nine years after 9/11.
The magazine is 70 pages of the same kind of garbage that you'd expect from al Qaeda itself, and certainly not from an American living in North Carolina. It seems to be imitating several other jihad magazines, which started with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's "Voice of Jihad."
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The most worrisome articles, though, aren't the two aimed at teaching wanna-be terrorists about the technologies behind EMP and night-vision --- even though we are told that "through war booty, we can expect to see more mujahideen using night vision in their strategies." No, I think the most worrisome article is one entitled "Principles of Guerrilla Warfare."
Clearly the point of the magazine is to gain sympathy for al Qaeda, the Taliban, Shabaab, and any other violent Islamist terrorist organizations...
Please, somebody, tell me that this isn't happening!
Will BHO reach out to the magazine's editor?
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Understand I am not defending this publication. I do not approve of it.
But the question is (& not having read how it's phrased within the magazine itself) at what point, while still upholding The Constitution, does Freedom of Speech end and sedition begin? And how, other than authors and intended audience, is teaching about night vision goggle technology or EMP technology or Principles of Guerilla Warfare any different than say something like Soldeir of Fortune? As well as all the examples cited would be taught in one way or another in any military academy.
Our problem is not this magazine, it is that we have allowed the enemy to find the ways to use our own legal Constitutional protections against us.
Maybe we should look at it as a cockeyed blessing. Know the ways of your enemy.
MR,
at what point, while still upholding The Constitution, does Freedom of Speech end and sedition begin?
I thought about that before I posted the info.
I think that promoting violence to overthrow a nation is the tipping point.
Working via political activism - there's a touchy one. And, mainly it is the stealth jihad which is the greater threat, IMO.
Maybe we should look at it as a cockeyed blessing. Know the ways of your enemy.
Any blessing will evaporate if we have a Beslan in that area of North Carolina.
I agree with everything you said, AoW. My question would be is there anything in there that actually promotes violence against America, or anyone else, directly. They can clothe it as this is how you would make a pipe bomb and get away with it. Advocate throwing that pipe bomb at the Presidential motorcade and it's a different scenario. Thus the question and statement that they use our own protections against us.
Next to a nuke, I think an American Beslan is what scares me most. It would cripple this country, parents would stay home in droves too afraid to send their kids to school. It's also far easier to pull off.
And Al Qaida knows it.
MR,
Remember Cho, who killed all those students at Virginia Tech?
Once all the blood had flowed and Cho was dead, people started saying, "We could see something bad coming." In fact, one of the VT profs just published a book on the topic.
The AQ magazine in NC may turn out to be similar. I hope not.
Hindsight is always 20/20. My concern is balancing foresight with our liberties.
America, overall, has been very lucky with that balance. So far. But I'm worried that we're rapidly reaching some kind of tipping point and that our next awakening will be much, much worse than 9/11 -- likely something that we haven't even yet imagined. Lately, I've been feeling that we're headed over the precipice. Not that I can personally do anything more than I'm doing.
The disconnect between citizens and government seems to be growing wider in many respects, however. How long can that chasm continue to widen?
Or maybe I'm imagining the chasm.
Maybe most Americans really do want to go in the direction in which BHO is leading.
You've said nothing I disagree with. Except it's not a chasm, it's an abyss. And we have one foot in the air over it.
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