Jihadi Hollywood

Jihadi Hollywood

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

The most powerful communications tool ever deployed by human beings, and a tool that has crossed even the most heavily defended borders unopposed, is the Internet. The Internet was propped up by western democracies as the means to spread global democracy to every nation in the world. It was a great plan.

However, like all great plans, some country, entity, group or even motivated individual can throw a wrench into it. As US technological prowess helped design and spread the Internet under democratic ideals, a totalitarian force that opposes the very nature of democracy was waiting in the wings to take advantage of the Internet and the power that the Internet could provide them.

That totalitarian force is known as fundamentalist Islam.

While western teenagers were ordering comic books from Amazon.com, putting up pages on MySpace.com and downloading the latest fashionable rap music from Itunes.com, the fundamentalist Islamic teenager was opening his Email up at his family’s residence to receive the latest Jihadi operational video so that he could FTP it to any one of tens of thousands of Jihadi websites.

While American teenagers are taught in leftist public schools that America is an aggressor nation-state unworthy of national defense and military spending that misunderstands fundamentalist Islam, the fundamentalist teenager is managing Internet forums to check up on Jihadists around the world and providing whatever support is necessary to help them.

It is a tale of two different worlds—one that seeks to remain the global superpower and hegemon against internal apologist divisions, while the other is attempting to replace the United States as the hegemon. It is, as Huntington told us years ago, a clash of civilizations.

That is not to say that fundamentalist Islamic youth are not interested in downloading music from Itunes. Islamic nation-states are some of the greatest proliferators of stolen and pirated copyrighted material ever. It is just that there is a certain level of risk for the Islamic youth in possessing such western material, but with risk there is excitement and with excitement comes the willingness to reject prohibition. So it would not be unusual at all for the Islamic fundamentalist teenager to listen to Metallica, Queensryche, Led Zeppelin and Jimmi Hendricks as he is uploading the latest improvised explosive device attack on some unsuspecting western forces to his Jihadist website that he received from insurgents involved in the psyop of such matters.

Opportunities to lure young Islamic males away from Jihadism do exist. The west just doesn’t have a plan about what to do about it, preferring instead to sit idly back and let things sort themselves out on their own.

Moving beyond that important point, let’s peer into Jihadi propaganda efforts as we rightly should. Jihadists are very sophisticated when it comes to their propaganda efforts. Jihadi propaganda efforts are really no different in concept than western propaganda efforts. The western media for example, was at one time the gateway, the gatekeeper of all information that reached the unwashed masses. In the western media’s ivory towers sat many functionaries whose only purpose was to decide what information was deemed worthy to present to the American and international public, and what information was to be kept from the American public. Information and ideas are more powerful than any bullet, bomb and missile. The western media became very powerful in that way as they were the nannies of information dissemination for many decades.

Then came the Internet and with the development of the Internet, the traditional gatekeepers of information flows to the unwashed masses began to lose control. In a very brief period of time, tens of millions of Web pages appeared whose authors were not filtered through the hiring committees of the traditional media. The media would soon look out the windows of its ivory towers with disdain at how their empire had been subverted by the same unwashed masses that media sought to regulate through media-defined information flows.

No other group that belongs to the unwashed masses has been as effective in utilizing the new power of the Internet as Jihadi organizations have. The sophistication of Jihadi terrorists in using the Internet to disseminate their operational and psychological warfare programs is fast becoming legendary.

Imagine for a moment, if some domestic terrorist organization that was operating in the United States against the US government began filming those operations as they were conducted by the terrorist cell and then delivering them to Fox News to be broadcast by energetic and willing news anchors. In reality, US intelligence would soon learn about such activity and traps would be laid for the terrorist cell that was communicating with the American media and the terrorist cell would be tracked down and destroyed by thousands of police forces and military personnel in hails of gunfire.

The Jihadi terrorist cell, on the other hand, does not have to worry about that. The Jihadi terrorist cell plans a terrorist operation against its target, films the attack, and then the Jihadi terrorist organization uses its vast contacts in al Jazeera and other pro-Jihadi news elements around the world to disseminate its successes against the “infidels”.

So while news organizations such as CNN would pick up the telephone to call in SWAT if an American terrorist organization tried to get CNN to play its terrorist videos on CNN news programs, news organizations such as al Jazeera give the Jihadists greetings and salutations when videos come to their news networks from Jihadi terrorist groups. On a humorous note, some American news organizations might even hand a terrorist video back to the terrorists that tried to deliver it and with a puzzled look on their faces would ask the terrorists for classified information about American secret prisons used in the War on Terrorism instead.

What this proves then is that there is a formal integration between some news organizations that operate overseas and Jihadi terrorist cells. Instead of promoting journalism ethics and responsibility, some news organizations are profiting and assisting Jihadi efforts in the War on Infidels. This means that these news organizations have pooled their resources to become willing functional agents of radical Islam.

Jihadi insurgent video teams are amateurs that use camcorders and digital cameras to obtain their pictures and video. These propaganda agents move around the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with Jihadi militants as Jihadists plan and implement their attacks upon American and coalition soldiers. The value of such video footage cannot be underestimated for the Jihadi cause.

An improvised explosive device is constructed at any one of numerous Jihadi munition locations in the battlefield space. The device is then carried by Jihadists to the ambush site that they have prepared for it and buried. Then an overwatch team with radios waits in hiding for hours at times for an American or coalition vehicle patrol to pass through their kill zone. As the American or coalition vehicle patrol approaches, the Jihadist video team begins to film the attack long before the vehicles enter the ambush site. When the vehicles are at the precise location for the improvised explosive device to be detonated against them, the Jihadists give the signal to detonate and then a tremendous explosion rips through the air as the attack unfolds.

The video of the attack is then transmitted to the Jihadi terrorist cell’s video editing team (possibly including video equipment used in professional media organizations with help from journalists) where background graphics, religious-themed music, and other information is added to the core video to provide greater appeal and psyop strength to the end-product. The Jihadi video is then distributed to thousands of Jihadi websites around the world where it is archived and downloaded by other Jihadists as a propaganda and even training video used to prepare for future terrorist attacks. Many times these videos are even disseminated through al Jazeera and other sympathetic news organizations to the masses.

It is simply remarkable then that professional journalism even tolerates such activity, even if that activity is derived on foreign soil. Broadcasting and disseminating terrorist videos of attacks on US and coalition forces around the world is unethical media behavior. Foreign Internet Services Providers that provide collocation facilities to store and disseminate terrorist videos from their servers are just as unethical and are party to the militant Caliphate agenda.

If young Jihadists are so interested in Jihadi movies, the west should start dropping DVD movie bombs on their locations from high-altitude and other forms of pro-western propaganda. These nation-states are going to pirate such works and spread them anyway when they can get their hands on them. The United States and Hollywood should get together and make an effort to mass produce music and movie DVDs and then widely distribute them to as many young Islamic males as they can reach. Nothing is more powerful than an “idea”, especially one transmitted by “video” and “sound”.

The PRC communists in China respect the power of Hollywood. China fears the psyop power of Hollywood. The American movie industry holds a strong spell over young western citizens. There is no doubt that it could be effective in spreading that spell unto militant Islamic populations that have been indoctrinated under the perversion of radical Islam.

Christopher Farmer

MS, National Security

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