YouTube is a great thing in my view.  It allows people to upload videos of whatever they want to be seen by a mass audience.  I’ve created a few, as regular readers know, and many of those have been seen by thousands of people both on YouTube and on other sites hosting them.

About one year ago, Islamists and those who support radical Islamic terrorism started to use YouTube to place Al Qaida, Ansar al-Sunnah, and other various terrorist group videos.  It makes sense, because those who support the international jihad also want to have a massive audience view jihadist propaganda.

Last November, my YouTube account was flagged by an Islamist group on YouTube, meaning every video I already have up or will post up in the future has been flagged for supposed inappropriate content. I saw it as a feather in my cap, because I’ve long said I enjoy ticking off Islamist groups in hopes to engage any of them in a debate to show the fallacy of their ways.

This morning I signed into YouTube to look around and noticed I had an email from a member of the Islamist group who flag my account.  The email was short and to the point, that I should watch this video.  The video was, as many of Al Qaida in Iraq’s videos are, filled with recycled material showing roadside bombs, car bombs, alleged suicide bombs, etc.  Why this is supposed to worry or concern me, I don’t know as I’ve seen too many of these videos and the video in question didn’t show even one scene I had not already viewed.

While I can respond to any email I receive in YouTube, for some reason I was not able to reply to this email.  Nor could I block future emails from this user.  That seems rather interesting since after perusing through this user’s videos, all of which are Al Qaida in Iraq propaganda videos, none of them were flagged for inappropriate content.  Yes, videos showing death and carnage of both military personnel and civilians in Iraq is not inappropriate, but a video I made showing the nexis between the Nazi Regime and the Islamist doctrine originating with the Muslim Brotherhood somehow is.

I cannot say this is an intentional YouTube endorsement of Islamist videos, and I don’t intend to make that case, but rather this entire episode strengthens what I’ve argued for a very long time.  It is 100 percent clear Islamist groups intend to use the very Western technology they supposedly abhor to advance their ideology.  This is just another instance of they jihadist two-step around certain supposed codes of Islamism when it suits their own ends.

And indeed as we’ve seen through the foiled terrorist attack in England yesterday, the Internet has become a recruiting ground for jihadists, indoctrination camp, a media outlet and a support group for jihadists who incessantly whine about why Allah does not simply wipe the Infidel out of existence (I kid you not on the whine part).

The counter to that should be to either learn how to end this use or place pressure upon the outlets who host jihadist sites or carry their videos.  That is easier said then done, however, when CNN runs a sniper video straight from the Islamic Army of Iraq site and later talks of ‘intermediaries’ which is a joke in itself, and a New York Times reporter who laments the fact her newspaper did not give her an ‘exclusive’ for showing a video she obtained off an Al Qaida in Iraq site.

It is always a shock to people whom I talk to regarding Islamism or jihadist groups when I tell them most terrorist group sites are hosted within the United States.  I don’t understand the shock either, believing it is common knowledge, but there hasn’t been a single person I’ve told that to who didn’t react with a look of complete surprise.   But when put into the context of major media outlets running these videos in their news covereage, should anyone really be flabbergasted terrorist groups have web sites hosted in the United States?

YouTube is an American corporation, the epitomy of jihadists hate, yet they are always more than happy to use YouTube to their ends.  So too are the internet hosts where jihadist groups sign up to put their snuff videos on for the world to see.  The larger question is not what we can do about it to combat this jihadist spewing of propaganda, but rather if the larger Muslim populace simply laughs their asses off that a group who campaigns against the technology superior West, in part because of said technology, ends up enriching the very nation in which they wish to bring down the most.