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B'nai Brith Pushes for Web Regulation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who-watches-what dept.

Baldrson writes: "Wired magazine reports that in late August, B'nai Brith Canada tried to get the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to pay attention to posts on the Islam Way weblog that solicited for volunteers to join Ossama bin Laden. According to the story: "...after media reports have suggested that Montreal and Halifax may have been meeting points for a number of the terrorists involved in the attack, B'nai Brith Canada is stepping up its efforts to get legislation passed to ban such Web activity.""

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  1. Interesting enough.... by RogrWilco · · Score: 2, Informative

    It seems that the Islam Way is american as well. A quick lookup on them shows theat they are based in michigan as well.

    Billing Contact:
    Islamic Assembly of North America, IANA islamwaysite@hotmail.com
    3588 Playmouth Rd
    PMB #270
    Ann Arbor, MI 48105
    US
    7345280006

    And ARIN reports that their IP is American as well

    Dialtone, Inc. (NETBLK-DIALTONEINTERNET-2)
    4101 SW 47th Ave Suite 101
    Davie, FL 33314
    US

    So, looks like the FBI has more jurisdiction here.

  2. CSIS != CISC by BMazurek · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Slashbox links to the CISC (Criminal Intelligence Service Canada), but the article text refers to CSIS (Canada Security Intelligence Service). Here is the real CSIS site.

  3. IslamWay.com = Terrorism ?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Note: I tried to register but I always failed !

    Email me if you want : wael@islamway.com

    Hello,

    I read your post on SlashDot and I'd like for the sake of truth to clarify things to you ..

    Bna'i Brith attack on IslamWay.com was very strange, as a member and volunteer of IslamWay.com team I assure that the main objective of this website is teaching people about Islam, and we have nothing to do with politics.

    Then what's the story of terrorism ?!

    In IslamWay.com discussion board we've more than 4000 Member and at the time of the media attack there was more than 28,000 posts!! Bnai Brith didn't only take one of the posts but even took a statement out of context to proove that IslamWay.com is a terrorist website !

    Although a service provider is not responsable for what third parties write in their website, all the media started to attack IslamWay.com ( see : http://www.islamway.com/NYPost.htm )

    Was it really Invitation to kill others ?

    The discussion post was between two people who were fighting each others by words, one called the other one that you are a hypocrite, so the other one was very angry so he told him -I'm just giving the meaning- : Let's see who is the hypocrite, Come with me to Afghanistan and let's train ourselves there .. so the person meant that army excersises will be a way to proove who is the coward and who is the brave !!

    Which is a proof that this person is a sick person or at least a one with a child mind !

    The people who attacked IslamWay.com based on the Discussion Board post didn't clarify that it was mentioned in the discussion board, and they just said a post on IslamWay.com ..

    They didn't mention it's a fight between two people but they mentioned that it's an invitation !

    My message to the people who read the fake stories about IslamWay.com to go and visit it, and judge by your self.
    http://english.islamway.com

    Thanks,

    Wael

    1. Re:IslamWay.com = Terrorism ?! by Ms.Taken · · Score: 2, Informative
      As far as I am concerned, this says it all... Islam forbids killing unless it is in self-defense.

      Islam might forbid it but islamway.com does not.

      From Is Jihad only permitted for the purpose of defense?:
      "Allah commands waging all-out Jihad against polytheists and fighting them even in their lands 'until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah' (Al-Baqarah: 193).... [Everyone] should realize that contemporary thinkers are wrong in claiming that Jihad has been permitted only for the purpose of defense (counter-attack)."

      It was certainly not their attitude when terrorists killed 100 people in Kashmir (India) when they published this message which exhorts people to "come forward, join Jaish-i-Muhammads allallahu `alaihe wassalaam and enjoy the taste of this glorious Jihad."

      If you have any lingering doubts as to islamway.com's attitudes, check out this article praising the Taliban for destroying the Buddhist statues.

      For the record I'm opposed to censorship, both online and off, and agree with those who have suggested that's it's better to permit (and watch) such sites than to send them underground.

      But make now mistake, islamway.com is an extremist group, advocating violence under the banner of 'jihad'.

  4. Directly from the IslamWay response... by sammy+baby · · Score: 4, Informative
    The entire story is based upon a posting by a private individual on Islamway's English language discussion board, in the context of an ongoing dialogue between two individuals. There are over 28,000 postings on the discussion board, with more than 34,000 visitors to the page everyday, and over 4,000 active members. Islamway is in no way responsible for the content of postings by private individuals, anymore than CNN.com or Yahoo! are responsible for the postings found on the discussion boards on their sites...A reporter from an Ottawa television station conveyed to Islamway staff that the Canadian authorities have dismissed the issue as baseless, and B'nai B'rith has refused any further comment.

    - IslamWay.com's response

    So first, everyone relax. It wasn't like the owner of this site was actively recruiting.

    Second, it sounds like the Canadian government isn't interested in pursuing the issue, which is a relief.

    And third, I don't see anyone pulling for net regulation when assholes in our own country start shouting, "Nuke them sand-niggers back into the stone age! I'm gonna get me one tonight!"

    As a brief side note: I'd like to remind everyone that the people of Afghanistan live in terror of the Taliban. Please think of the ways they're suffering before blindly calling for their annihilation.

  5. The other B'Nai Brith accusation... by Master+of+Kode+Fu · · Score: 2, Informative
    ...is covered the latest edition of NOW magazine (an independent free weekly in Toronto). The opening paragraphs of the article read:
    It didn't take b'nai brith very long on Tuesday, mere hours after the horror struck New York, to oil its spin machine. The group, whose timing is shameless, issued "an urgent alert" to security officials, warning them about possible terrorist supporters making their way to Canada for a pro-Palestinian demonstration taking place Saturday (September 15) in Montreal."Today's terrorist attacks have emphasized the vulnerability of all democratic states in the face of the ruthless agenda of terrorist groups, those who fund them and those who provide them with logistic and moral support," says the press release, neatly tying mass murder at the World Trade Centre to protest against the Israeli occupation.

    Talk about guilt by association. The idea that thousands of terrorist symps were rushing across the border to carry placards at Concordia University was certainly news to Jewish and Arab peace activists who have worked together on the demo for a month now and have diligently outlawed the burning of the Israeli flag and speeches that incite hatred.

    Once again, the story appears in full here.