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How You Can Kill Al Qaeda:
Offering an alternative to conventional, ineffective methods of shutting down Al Qaeda, this handbook unlocks the secrets of the organization and provides a simple strategy for disempowering the terrorists via the internet. The practical, populist formula calls for individuals to identify, translate, and disseminate persuasive and independent counter-Al Qaeda messages online—using the primary media on which Al Qaeda spreads their communications. It is through the yet-to-be challenged online messaging to the Muslim public that Al Qaeda garners its critical financial and moral support and future recruits. Using the information and tools provided in the text, individuals as well as organizations—internet-savvy or not—can help drown out the pervasive pro-Al Qaeda propaganda.
75 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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August 18, 2015
Curious little non-profit 'pamphlet' book which aims to animate non-government sources to spread anti-al Qaeda Islamic stances on the web. His general position seems fairly reasonable, although some of his grander aspirations come across as fairly sketchy (translating a text into all applicable languages would set you back around $1,700, and even those on his own website leave something to be desired).
You have to trawl through his references and the web to get some juicy examples of pacifists and militants condemning suicide bombing etc (plenty out there for the former, and some for the zealot-friendly latter), as the book itself is more a powerpoint presentation in paper form. There are still some interesting titbits flagged up in the main text, including a Pew poll on the drop in support for suicide bombing in the Islamic world etc (2002-2007).
Some of it is accidentally comical: Wordpress as a terrorist's favourite (hence he recommends it), militaristic hierarchy trees for NGOs (is 'web chief' a normal title?), and rousing quotes about sticking banners up anuses. Still, a fairly worthy, and not too frothy, approach.
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You have to trawl through his references and the web to get some juicy examples of pacifists and militants condemning suicide bombing etc (plenty out there for the former, and some for the zealot-friendly latter), as the book itself is more a powerpoint presentation in paper form. There are still some interesting titbits flagged up in the main text, including a Pew poll on the drop in support for suicide bombing in the Islamic world etc (2002-2007).
Some of it is accidentally comical: Wordpress as a terrorist's favourite (hence he recommends it), militaristic hierarchy trees for NGOs (is 'web chief' a normal title?), and rousing quotes about sticking banners up anuses. Still, a fairly worthy, and not too frothy, approach.
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