Preventing Predators By Max Boot

The New York Times had a jarring report on Monday on jihadist bloggers. There is, of course, nothing particularly new about this phenomenon; al Qaeda’s mastery of the Internet is a familiar, if unfortunate, fact of modern life. What was jarring was that the prime example cited in the Times article—a blogger who extols the virtues of Osama bin Laden and decries the supposed depravity of the “United States of Losers”—lives right in the very country that he loathes. As the Times account notes:

It turns out he is a 21-year-old American named Samir Khan who produces his blog from his parents’ home in North Carolina, where he serves as a kind of Western relay station for the multimedia productions of violent Islamic groups.

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