Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas

An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from The Hill: "The past week's violence in Gaza has rekindled calls for Twitter to shutter the accounts of U.S.-labeled terror groups such as Hamas. Seven House Republicans asked the FBI in September to demand that Twitter take down the accounts of U.S.-designated terrorist groups, such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Somalia's al Shabaab. The letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller was spearheaded by Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), who said Wednesday that the recent events vindicated the request. 'Allowing foreign terrorist organizations like Hamas to operate on Twitter is enabling the enemy,' [Poe said] 'Failure to block access arms them with the ability to freely spread their violent propaganda and mobilize in their War on Israel.'"

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Hamas is the enemy of Israel and the West

[benjfowler]

The West, collectively is big enough to take on Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the Arab countries all at the same time.

Why doesn't somebody simply call a general mobilization, and round up every political Islamist in the region, and put them up against a wall? We'd solve about a dozen problems at a stroke.

Ban Hamas? What about Quebec?

[fustakrakich]

They've been getting pretty uppity... and they do speak French (if you can call it that)... I mean, what the hell? If we're going to delve into the absurd, let's go all the way.