HOW BLOGGERS TOOK DOWN JIHAD JANE

This is truly an awesome story. An international Muslim conspiracy to kill a Swedish cartoonist for drawing an unflattering depiction of Mohammed was thwarted thanks to bloggers who collaborated while remaining anonymous to each other. Based on the success of internet bloggers in bringing Jihad Jane to the attention of the FBI, it would seem that the latter has some every day Americans at its disposal. It should take advantage of this newfound weapon in the fight against Islamic terror.

The Jawa Report has posted the account of one of the people involved in the Jihad Jane takedown:

I initially started on youtube with a channel dedicated to performing arts. Due to some disturbing comments I received on videos of Middle East Performing Arts by some so-called fanatical muslims posting comments such as, "if this were my sister I could kill her" or "if I ever if I ever see this girl I will rape her", I decided to open up a new channel and investigate further where this blind hatred for women in Middle East Performing Arts came from.

An informal, anonymous, and unsanctioned sting began to unfold. The account continues....

One thing lead to another and the next thing I knew, I was dealing with fanatical's such as JihadJane/FatimaLaRose whose real identity was later revealed as Colleen LaRose. I noted this woman's dedication to Osama Bin Laden and her extreme hatred to the U.S. and all those who were not muslim wishing death upon us as well as favoriting and commenting on every terrorist video on youtube posting comments such as "you are doing a good job". Over the course of approximately 1 1/2 years we exchanged comments on youtube in reference to her fanatical beliefs, at times me becoming her main rival which drew attention from others who were monitoring her, mainly the Youtube SmackDown group who were responsible for removing many terrorist vids from youtube.

The Youtube SmackDown group is dedicated to exposing internet Jihad and appears to have served as reinforcements for this individual who found him/herself engaged in a smackdown with Jihad Jane. They also maintain a blog as well.

Be sure to read the whole thing at Jawa.

Another VERY interesting angle to this story is where Jihad Jane became radicalized. She claimed that her conversion to Islam came as a result of her meeting a Muslim man while on vacation in Holland. That would be the same Holland where Freedom Party candidate Geert Wilders is surging - the same Geert Wilders who Glenn Beck accused of representing a fascist movement in that country.



Read more about Jihad Jane here.