Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of The
Investigative Project has uncovered a radical Islamic website that tracks
Arab Christians who post on
PalTalk. The website is filled with vicious anti-Christian
rhetoric, and entries celebrating the murder of the Armanious family of New
Jersey. They were an Egyptian Christian (Coptic) family whose massacre is
unsolved, though many in the Coptic community believe they were done in by
radical Muslims, with whom at least one of them had clashed on PalTalk.
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch said to
Gartenstein-Ross: “I have never seen anything like this before,” Mr. Spencer said. “It’s chilling to see photographs of people who probably have no idea that they’re on the Web site. Hamas’s Web site would post self-congratulatory accounts of their attacks on civilians, but barsomyat.com’s users are telegraphiing their intended victims in advance.” Mr. Spencer added that barsomyat.com is a “prime example” of how some Islamic extremists can utilize technology to attempt to bring Islamic religious law to the West. “We saw in the Theo van Gogh murders that some Muslims will take these kinds of matters into their own hands,” Mr. Spencer said. “The Internet makes it easier for them to do so by disseminating this kind of information. You could imagine 15 years ago how hard it would be for people to get this much information on people who they believe should be killed.”





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