NDM Post 2

Jihad in a social media age: how can the west win an online war?

the Article focuses on the ISISs use of twitter and social media to put across a point and their personal views on the US government and the announcements from the ISIS they look at the profile of the ISIS members and supporters such as Nasser Balochi, a Sunni Muslim and one of a proliferating army of tweeters doubling as online recruiting sergeants for the intensifying conflicts in Syria and Iraq. 

 - Hundreds of jihadists currently fighting in the Middle East are believed to follow the Twitter account of Nasser Balochi,

 - In total, 18,223 unique users – those who followed foreign fighters and in turn were followed – were analysed

 - A social media operator whose popularity has swollen in tandem with the territorial expansion of Isis, from 4,700 to 11,900 followers since April.

My personal view on the the story is that the american government is to blame as for the most part the soldiers of the ISIS are american soldiers that have been trained and have then joined terrorist groups, America are now cleaning their own mess that they have created by training violent untrustworthy soldiers. However, the ISIS members are also to blame for the innocent killing of civilians and shouldn't claim to be Muslim as it give them a bad reputation.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/23/jihad-social-media-age-west-win-online-war