Wednesday, May 20, 2015

ISIS Recruiting 'Thousands' of Young Americans on Web ... The U.S. Response? ...

Rashad Hussain is the wrong for the job
Put a terror-supporting Muslim in charge of countermessaging.
War On Terror: The Islamic State has beaten the U.S. on the propaganda front, recruiting "thousands" of Muslim Americans on social media. The U.S. answer? Put a terror-supporting Muslim in charge of countermessaging.
Discouraging Muslims from joining IS and heeding its calls to jihad has become a wartime imperative. FBI Director James Comey last week testified that the terror group is leveraging social media to radicalize "maybe thousands" of young Muslims in the U.S. to "kill, kill, kill."
Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson warns that one or more of these ISIS recruits could "strike at any moment" on orders directed through Twitter. One of the American Muslims who opened fire on a Texas free speech event regularly traded calls for violence on Twitter with IS fighters.
"We're definitely in a new environment," Johnson said, "because of (IS') effective use of social media, the Internet." The warnings prompted the Pentagon to elevate its threat level on all U.S. military bases to Bravo.
Top U.S. intelligence officials agree that the Internet is a huge recruiting tool for ISIS and that we are losing the cyberpropaganda war.
Rashad Hussain — says that terrorists need more, not 
 less, of fundamentalist Islam
Why? Look no further than the man President Obama named to head America's countermessaging campaign against IS. He's the wrong man for the job.
The president's director of the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications — Rashad Hussain — is a terror-supporting Islamist who says that terrorists need more, not less, of fundamentalist Islam.
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