Hate speech without condemnation By Douglas J. Hagmann

While the people in the West were ringing in the New Year with their renditions of Auld Land Syne, IslamOnline.net published a “poem” titled How to Behead” (copied in its entirety at the end of this article). The written composition, promoted under the pretext of art, is weighted more with gruesome instruction and perverse elation rather than artistic conceptualization. The decision to post the “poem” in the venue on which it appears, and that it was written by a convicted terrorist from the UK is exponentially more important than what has been written about it on various Internet Blogs and forums known for their generally superficial reporting of the musings and utterances of militant Islamists.

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