Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 10, 2015 @01:25AM from the fighting-fire-with-bits dept.

mpicpp writes with news that hackers claiming to represent Anonymous have declared war on terrorists. They pledged to take down websites and social media accounts being used by jihadists as retaliation for the Charlie Hebdo attack. They said, "It is clear that some people do not want, in a free world, this inviolable and sacred right to express in any way one's opinions. Anonymous will never leave this right violated by obscurantism and mysticism. We will fight always and everywhere the enemies of freedom of speech. ... Freedom of speech and opinion is a non-negotiable thing, to tackle it is to attack democracy. Expect a massive frontal reaction from us because the struggle for the defense of those freedoms is the foundation of our movement.

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Re:Favorite Pastime for the Islamists by Anonymous Coward · 2015-01-10 02:06 · Score: 5, Informative

Well... No.
There was about 1000 years of peace before that happened.
They then suffered a series of lost battles with the Christians and their empires pretty much collapsed. And that got blamed on not being sufficiently "pure" in the faith.
Of course that didn't stop the collapse either.
Re: Anonymous ? Get a life !! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-01-10 02:12 · Score: 5, Informative

They were threatened and they stopped, out of fear: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/nov/02/anonymous-zetas-hacking-climbdown