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Vexcalibur
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12 Jan 2012, 1:49 pm

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2 ... f_onl.html

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The counterterrorism community has spent years trying to determine why so many people are engaged in online jihadi communities in such a meaningful way. After all, the life of an online administrator for a hard-line Islamist forum is not as exciting as one might expect. You don't get paid, and you spend most of your time posting links and videos, commenting on other people's links and videos, and then commenting on other people's comments. So why do people like Abumubarak spend weeks and months and years of their time doing it? Explanations from scholars have ranged from the inherently compulsive and violent quality of Islam to the psychology of terrorists.

But no one seems to have noticed that the fervor of online jihadists is actually quite similar to the fervor of any other online group. The online world of Islamic extremists, like all the other worlds of the Internet, operates on a subtly psychological level that does a brilliant job at keeping people like Abumubarak clicking and posting away -- and amassing all the rankings, scores, badges, and levels to prove it. Like virtually every other popular online social space, the social space of online jihadists has become "gamified," a term used to describe game-like attributes applied to non-game activities. It turns out that what drives online jihadists is pretty much exactly what drives Internet trolls, airline ticket consumers, and World of Warcraft players: competition.


Darn.


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12 Jan 2012, 1:56 pm

Mindless zealots?

I really can't tell the difference between jihadis and strident atheists. :lol:


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12 Jan 2012, 1:58 pm

GoonSquad wrote:
Mindless zealots?

I really can't tell the difference between jihadis and strident atheists. :lol:


Jihadis strap on explosive devices and cleanse their genitals for an encounter with their 72 virgins in paradise. Stridents do none of these things.

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12 Jan 2012, 2:05 pm

I wonder what extremes one of us would go to, for an earthly encounter with 72 delectable virgins.



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12 Jan 2012, 2:16 pm

ruveyn wrote:
GoonSquad wrote:
Mindless zealots?

I really can't tell the difference between jihadis and strident atheists. :lol:


Jihadis strap on explosive devices and cleanse their genitals for an encounter with their 72 virgins in paradise. Stridents do none of these things.

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At least the jihadis have the decency to eliminate themselves...

Atheists should make a single post and explode.


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12 Jan 2012, 2:48 pm

How many Jihadists are there online? More than anarchists?


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12 Jan 2012, 2:54 pm

pandabear wrote:
I wonder what extremes one of us would go to, for an earthly encounter with 72 delectable virgins.


Err.... teaching 72 virgins? That's all you.

What do WP PPR'ers have in common with online jihadists? Cheetoes, messy rooms, parent's basements, and generally muddy thought processes.


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12 Jan 2012, 9:28 pm

omg. this place is a potential hotbed of aspie extremism. i should get out before i have enough points to make a custom rank.

also ruveyn might find it interesting that athiest terrorists do exist and they are known to use bombs...



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12 Jan 2012, 9:32 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Jihadis strap on explosive devices and cleanse their genitals for an encounter with their 72 virgins in paradise.


Then they are absolute morons. As one would expect of any Islamic terrorists.

Haven't they ever heard of experienced MILFs?



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12 Jan 2012, 9:32 pm

GoonSquad wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
GoonSquad wrote:
Mindless zealots?

I really can't tell the difference between jihadis and strident atheists. :lol:


Jihadis strap on explosive devices and cleanse their genitals for an encounter with their 72 virgins in paradise. Stridents do none of these things.

ruveyn


At least the jihadis have the decency to eliminate themselves...

Atheists should make a single post and explode.


That's sweet of you to say


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12 Jan 2012, 9:44 pm

"What online Jihadists and wrongplanet have in common?"
Asperger's?



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12 Jan 2012, 10:12 pm

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"What online Jihadists and wrongplanet have in common?"
Asperger's?


:lol: :lol:

They use an internets?


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12 Jan 2012, 10:14 pm

blunnet wrote:
"What online Jihadists and wrongplanet have in common?"
Asperger's?


Had been waitin for the one-liner


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12 Jan 2012, 10:31 pm

GoonSquad wrote:
Mindless zealots?

I really can't tell the difference between jihadis and strident atheists. :lol:


GoonSquad wrote:
At least the jihadis have the decency to eliminate themselves...

Atheists should make a single post and explode.

I am feeling the love!! ! :heart:

I didn't know you felt that way GoonSquad! Don't feel nervous, the feeling is quite mutual. Now please go explode somewhere, you mindless zealot. :P :roll:



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12 Jan 2012, 10:32 pm

blunnet wrote:
"What online Jihadists and wrongplanet have in common?"
Asperger's?

Interesting idea actually..... Needs more research, at least whether a correlation exists.



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12 Jan 2012, 10:37 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:
Interesting idea actually..... Needs more research, at least whether a correlation exists.


So, not content with trying to link us to Hitler, some people now want to link us to Afghan goat-worriers! Charming. I mean, whenever does the abuse let up?