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Special Dispatch-Iran/ Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project
March 31, 2006
No. 1131
"Ya Mohammed" Website
Hosted in the U.S.: A Part of the Internet Jihad
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In an interview with the political reporter of the Iranian News Agency
Mehr, one of the managers of the Ya Mohammed website said that the site was
launched as part of the "Internet Jihad to fight against the front of blasphemy"
and "as a broad protest against the insults of the Western media."
It
should be noted that the site is registered and operated by proxy in the U.S.(1)
The following are excerpts from the Mehr report:(2)
An Effort to
Block the Plots of the Western Internet Media
"...One of the managers of
the Ya Mohammed site said: 'To date, 36,000 people have participated in the
website poll, and 96% of them want to continue the Internet protests against the
insults of the Western media, in an effort to prevent the repetition of such
ugly conduct.'
"It should be noted that waves of protests swept over
various countries throughout the world following the insults to the prophet of
Islam by the Danish newspaper and various other Western newspapers. This protest
has reached the Internet as well, and the Muslims are making efforts to block
the influence and plots of the Western Internet media.
"Towards this
goal, various Muslim students from universities worldwide have launched the Ya
Mohammed website, as a broad protest against the Western mediafs insult...,
[focusing] especially on the Google search engine. You can reach the
above-mentioned site [Ya Mohammed] at http://www.ya-mohammed.com .
"This
site has now started [to operate] in six languages - Persian, Arabic, English,
Italian, French and Spanish - and has the latest news and issues concerning
Islam.... The site manager said that the site would soon begin to operate in
Urdu, Russian, and Chinese.
"Every Internet user can write his e-mail
address and subscribe to the site...
"The site manager said he has
asked other Internet users, who themselves have websites or weblogs, to provide
a link to the Ya Mohammed site. So far, more than 1,100 sites and weblogs have
given such a link, but for those concerned with this matter, this number is not
sufficient for an Internet Jihad to fight against the front of blasphemy...
"In response to the question why the protest against the inhumane and
irreligious attitudes of several European papers still continues, he said: 'The
people who raise such a question are uninformed about the Internet front, and
they do not realize that the enemies of Islam have shifted the war front. After
placing the cartoons in the papers, they have begun to expand the scope of the
war, on a daily basis, into the arenas of 'legal websites'..."
Endnotes:
(1) www.ya-mohammed.com : IP address: 66.246.129.53; ISP:
Net Access Corp., Parsippany, NJ, U.S.; U.S. Registrant: (by proxy) Whois
Privacy Protection Service, Inc., Bellevue, WA, U.S.
(2)
http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=305201 March 23,
2006.
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