[ April 22, 2024 ]
In “moderate” Indonesia, ISIS is raising money via WhatsApp, Twitter, Bitcoin and PayPal.
Apparently those social media giants have no problem with that. They only hound and delete and silence and scrub the presence of those who oppose jihad terror.
It has happened to me in numerous ways. My website and posts have been scrubbed from Google search. Fourteen years and over forty thousand posts. Google Adsense has banned my account. Google is blacklisting and has admitted to working with alt-left smear groups to silence opposition. And it’s not just me, it’s all criticism of jihad and sharia.
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Facebook has blocked my news feed. My Twitter account is shadowbanned. I have been blocked from uploading videos to YouTube as punishment for a 2007 video on jihad (and YouTube demonetized all of my videos). PayPal suspended me until an outpouring of condemnation and outrage forced a reversal.
But in Indonesia, if you’re in ISIS, you will have no trouble using any of these platforms to raise money to finance jihad mass murder.
“Support for Islamic State? In Indonesia, There’s an App for That,” by Resty Woro Yuniar, South China Morning Post (thanks to The Religion of Peace), November 8, 2017:
Robbing banks, dealing drugs, stealing motorcycles – these are the kind of activities popularly associated with the world of terrorist group funding. But to the modern jihadi they’re all a little passé.
ATM smash and grabs, thefts and laundering money from front charities may have been all the rage as recently as 2014, but since 2015 online donations have been the avenue of choice for Islamic State supporting groups hoping to finance attacks in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation.
That’s according to a new joint study by the country’s National Counterterrorism Agency, State Intelligence Agency, and Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK), which examined the banking transactions involved in terror cases between 2014 and August 2017.
“Terror groups now call for donations through social media [and messaging platforms] such as WhatsApp groups or Twitter,” said Kiagus Ahmad Badarudin, chairman of the PPATK. “Bitcoin and PayPal are also used to move their money.”
Social media appealed to terrorists because it was practical, easy and borderless, Badarudin said. Most donations over social media were small, ranging from US$100-US$1,000, but the flow of aid was continuous and tough to track, he said.
Terror cells were also receiving contributions from legal businesses such as small-scale merchants and phone credit sellers, Badarudin added.
The shift online was, in part, due to a tightening of the net by security services.
“Jemaah Islamiyah in particular used a network of charities to siphon funds for militant operations. Those charities fell under scrutiny by security forces and more or less dried up as a funding source,” said Zachary Abuza, professor at the National War College in Washington, referring to an infamous Southeast Asia-wide jihadist network.
“It is not a surprise that pro-Islamic State groups have turned to social media to make appeals for donations as Islamic State has such a slick and widespread presence across so many different social media platforms.”
Indonesia has clamped down on Islamic extremism in recent months, arresting at least 160 pro-IS militants since the first attack linked to the group in January last year. At the end of October, police arrested nine suspected terrorists in East and Central Java, South Sulawesi, and Riau. In East Java, authorities arrested a man with ties to Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian militant in Syria who masterminded the 2016 Jakarta attacks that killed eight people. The man had been communicating with Naim through the messaging app Telegram, where the pair had belonged to a group called ‘Kulak Tahu’ (tofu seller).
Encrypted messaging platforms such as Telegram and WhatsApp are proving popular not only with active terror cells in Indonesia, but even with militants who are already behind bars. Authorities suspect the services are used by imprisoned terrorists, using mobile phones smuggled into their jails, to propagate their ideologies and even direct attacks from the comfort of their cells.
For this reason, the Indonesian communications ministry in July temporarily blocked web-access to Telegram, rescinding the order only after the company’s CEO Pavel Durov pledged to help the ministry close down radical chat groups.
“Authorities need to be wary of the [usage] of social media because it’s very easy to disseminate bank accounts privately there, making it easy for people to donate,” said Sidney Jones, director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict in Jakarta.
For their part, tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube have teamed up since December last year to curb the spread of radical content. The companies created a shared industry database of unique digital “fingerprints,” or so-called “hashes”, for terrorism-related images and videos.
“Violent organisations have no place on Facebook, we will take [the radical contents] down when we’re made aware of them,” said Gullnaz Baig, product policy manager at Facebook Asia Pacific.
The clampdown on Facebook targets such groups regardless of what they post.
“If you’re Osama bin Laden and you’re talking about puppies and kittens, we will still take you down because you are Osama bin Laden,” Baig added.
Meanwhile, online payment services such as PayPal and cryptocurrencies are also proving popular with the modern jihadi because they facilitate anonymous payments, according to the PPATK…..
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6 years ago
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6 years ago
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6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
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6 years ago
There is only one way to stop islam, which will require a bit of violence applied directly to problem muslims.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Hate to tell you, but a “bit” of violence won’t do the job. It is going to take massive violence. That is the whole problem….in our culture, it is “live and let live” as long as it doesn’t affect them personally. Well, it is beginning to affect all of us personally, and it probably will take massive violence to end it…..if we have the fortitude.
6 years ago
Just to clarify, Bitcoin is not really a “social media giant”. Since Bitcoin is just a system of open source software, it has no owner other than the thousands of users who have copies of the software on their own computers and can therefore trade the ‘virtual currency’ Bitcoins. The use and transmission of bitcoins requires no institutions, only individual computer users. That’s why Bitcoin is valued by those wishing to avoid the heavy hand of the tax man — or the policeman.
On the other hand, there is an institutional superstructure that facilitates the transfer of the digital currency Bitcoins into and out of traditional currencies. Such institutions might be regulated or forbidden by governments thereby slowing down the Bitcoin tradability and circulation velocity. But private individuals — or underground groups — can perform the same services if necessary. And there is no need to exchange Bitcoins for other currencies if what you are buying or selling is available from a party that accepts or pays in Bitcoins.
Conceivably a government could also cripple the ability of Bitcoin users to exchange the information they need to settle their accounts, through a digital ledger called a blockchain, but the ledger is decentralized and local copies are constantly updated and accessed via encrypted communications which are difficult to detect and decode. Still, the URLs of such ledger copies must be available to users so any government with undercover bitcoin accounts could continuously disable such URLs as it located them, find the owners of such URLS and forbid hosting such URLs on the net. But I think you would have to shut down the internet entirely — unthinkable of course — to stop most Bitcoin trading. (And computers could still be connected the old fashioned way — modems and phone connections.)
I probably have some of this wrong since you really need to be an expert in programming, the Internet, and cryptography to understand the system completely, but you can learn more online, perhaps by stating with Wikipedia:
6 years ago
Regarding Indonesia – Taiwan, India and China are supplying drugs to the millions of young moslems in Indonesia
They are supplying the drug by the container-load
It won’t be long before the drug crazed Indonesian youths start robbing each others, slicing each others’ throats, in the name of ‘allah’, of course
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
How do you know this? Not necessarily disbelieving you, just curious as to how you know.
6 years ago
Strange, because the founder of Whats App. is Jewish.
