Middle East Focus: Political Shock and Awe: Americans for Jihad………….

Arabia Deserta

Political Shock and Awe: Americans for Jihad………….

“The infamous jihadi web forums, which form the informal cultural core of the diffuse jihadi community, have been silent on the controversy over the Cordoba Center, an issue that is increasingly consuming U.S. and Arab media. Two experts who regularly monitor Arab and jihadi media, working independently, have found that jihadi forum users barely mention the issue. George Washington University associate professor and director of the Institute for Middle East Studies Marc Lynch found not even "a single reference" to the center among 500 recent posts. Brandeis University Research Assistant Aaron Zelin, who maintains a blog monitoring jihadi media, could find only one related post, which itself received almost no response, among the five most prominent forums. The forums are widely considered a window into the attitudes of the jihadi community……..”

There is no reason for the Jihadis to do anything or say anything about this mosque issue. The American right-wing (Tea Baggers, Fox News, frightened legislators, ADL, et al) are doing it all for them. They need do nothing but lean back in their dens (or wherever the hell they hide) and watch people from Turkey across the Middle East to Pakistan and then on to Indonesia wonder about this new low American political shock and awe.
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