Global Jihad: temi, piste di diffusione e il fenomeno del reducismo ...

as well as the reasons that drove 19 Arabs to carry out the September 11 attacks.
Before dealing with the possible effect of apocalyptic visions on the use of WMD, we
should look for these visions regarding suicide terrorism, blind discipline that drives
Sunni Jihadists to mass killings of Shi`is, or the growing hatred and demonization of
the “enemy,” whoever he is. One of the significant factors of this growing willingness
might be the visually effect of horrors as reflected through the Internet. Bloody video
clips, demonized graffiti, or the total freedom of speech on this medium, has a
growing effect too. Here again, the Islamic nature or rules of the Apocalypse are
secondary to the power of the demonization.
16. Jihadi use of the Internet – the Open University for Jihad
The main platform for developing and pushing the culture of global jihad forward is
in recent years, the Internet. There are several main reasons why Jihadi movements,
groups, clerics, and scholars, turned the Internet into their main, and sometimes
only, vehicle for propaganda, indoctrination, publicity, and teaching of their
messages. Besides the known advantages of this medium of communication, several
factors should be noted:
• Most Arab and Muslim countries face oppositions that are oppressed and
groups that are persecuted, rendering the Internet their only alternative to
spread their messages. Citizens and groups are prevented from freely
publishing books and newspapers, or from giving open lectures. Moreover, in
most Arab and Muslim countries they have no access to the traditional means
of Islamic religious indoctrination, such as mosques, Friday sermons, religious
universities and colleges, or religious ceremonies.
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