Conversations With Al-Qaida
According to a recent article on Spiegel Online, “Osama bin Laden’s top deputy, former Egyptian doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri, is taking questions from his friends and enemies alike on four al-Qaida-sanctioned jihadist Web sites. Providing a one-off advice column is just one way in which the international terrorist organization has adopted Web 2.0”
Putting the obvious questions aside, it is an interesting public relations move by Al-Qaida. Obviously, neither grand answers nor new insights will be offered by Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri. Rather, it is an opportunity to re-assert the profile of Al-Qaida as a global and influential organization. However, as the inheritors of Sayyid Qutb’s doctrines, an open forum embrace of the Internet, the most prolific symbol of Western dominance and hegemony, seems a strangely contradictory method for Al-Qaida to press their agenda.
Or perhaps this is a subtle proclamation of change by a notoriously inflexible organization. Whatever the case, it will be interesting to gain a sliver of insight into the man in charge, as well as a window into the minds of those posing the questions.
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Al-Qaida is eviiiil why u trash the twin towers 😡
It never ceases to amaze me how some of the most anti-western, anti-modern, backwards thinking organizations embrace such a juxtaposition. They seem to find value in cutting-edge, state-of-the-art technology, and yet they bite the hand that feeds them this technology. It is clear that freedom and democracy foster innovation, such as internet technology. How can they claim that such a societal construct is evil, while the enjoy the fruits borne of just such a society?
Extremists: can’t live with ’em, can’t… er… huh… go figure!