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  • johnpi 4:18 pm on February 1, 2010 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Cyber-stalker Charlie Flowers’ English Defense League connection.

    Flowers’ group (‘the Cheerleaders‘) vows to engage in vigilante intimidation campaigns against online Islamists, but of the actions we know of, he and the group have mostly harassed moderate and progressive Muslims (here at Talk Islam), and UK leftists like Tim Ireland who has written against the BNP, an even more extreme right-wing, racist group than the EDL. Ireland was also the subject of a ‘Cheerleaders’ death threat, when Flowers or someone affiliated with the group threatened a “machete to your throat.”

    Here’s a photo from Flowers’ Facebook page:

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    Flowers is the balding, middle-aged man at far left in the back. The date the photo was taken is unknown, but it was posted to Facebook on Dec. 2. The others in the photo are Darren Marsh, ‘Shooter Kirpachi’ and Bill Baker. Marsh, on his Facebook page, is a ‘fan’ of a number of British nationalist affinity sites such as “English and proud,” “English Democrats – Putting England first!” and “England,” the latter two being fan pages of the English Democrat Party. The London mayoral candidate for the EDP withdrew in 2008 after he found that the party had entered into an alliance with the “avowedly racist” (Wikipedia) England First Party not to stand against one another. The candidate, Matt O’Connor, described EDP members this way:

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  • johnpi 8:43 am on January 29, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Books: I’ve just started ‘Husband of a Fanatic” written by Vassar academic Amitava Kumar, who married a Pakistani Muslim woman in 1999. So far as I’ve read, it’s a nonfiction account of his attempt to explore Hindu fanaticism, but in later chapters he goes to visit his wife’s relations in Pakistan so there might be some exploration of the other side.

    Kumar, who grew up in India, wrote some articles about his marriage and later found his name and address had been posted on an Internet hit list of Hindu ‘traitors.’ (a topic that resonates since we’ve been discussing Internet death threats so much recently (here, here and here).

    The book starts with him sitting down to interview the man who likely put him on that list, a retired office worker living in Jackson Heights.

    Like Mr. Barotia, I was born in the provinces and grew up in small towns. For me, the move to the city meant that I learned English and embraced secular, universal rationality and liberalism. Mr. Barotia remained truer to his roots and retained his religion as well as a narrower form of nationalism that went with it. His revenge on the city was that he also became a fanatic. I do not envy him his changes, but I can’t think of those changes without a small degree of tenderness.

     

  • johnpi 1:54 am on January 28, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Alex Malloy, , , death threats, , Johnny Yeah, Jon Chappell, Kooba Radio, Redwire Design, , The Boy Malloy, ,

    Blogger Tim Ireland has uncovered some more associates of the ‘Cheerleaders,’ a group of Internet vigilantes who claim to stalk and victimize Islamist Muslims online, but who (as is usually the case with vigilantes) have targeted a wide range of random innocent people, including several bloggers on this site, and especially Ireland himself, who was threatened with a comment about a “machete to your throat.”

    The importance of discovering these new associates of ‘the Cheerleaders’ is in determining if they are involved in the bullying, threats of violence and cyber-stalking antics themselves, especially when reporting this behavior to the police, and in using the public forum of the Internet to shame these individuals and businesses by attaching their reprehensible actions to their names. Newly identified associates include:

    • Jon Chappell aka ‘Johnny Yeah’ of Kooba Radio, which Richard Bartholomew describes as “an obscure Internet radio station.”

    • Alex Malloy aka ‘The Boy Malloy’ who cofounded Kooba Radio with Chappell.

    • Angela Collins, another cofounder of Kooba Radio.

    • Kooba Radio.

    • Redwire Design, a web design company.

    The link amongst these is that Chappell was cced on some of the threats sent to Ireland. An account at Twitter and on Youtube that are associated with Chappell and Kooba radio were also used in the campaign of harassment against Ireland.

    The website of Kooba radio is hosted by a company called Redwire Design, and it just so happens that the person who answers the phones at Redwire is Alex Malloy, Chappell’s partner. Ireland called Malloy and queried him about his involvement. Malloy’s response was “Take the hint and f*** off.”

    I think it is safe to infer from that response that Malloy is aware of the threats of violence and the cyber-stalking (‘take a hint’) and he did not deny involvement or express disapproval of the illegal behavior. Here’s a pic of Malloy taken from the Redwire site:

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  • johnpi 11:20 am on January 25, 2010 | 13 Permalink | Reply
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    Umar Lee rocks the jafi-sphere with his threat on Michael Mohammad Knight. JihadWatch, Frontpagemag, assorted others and some right-wing Israeli blogs upset about the Daniel Pearl reference are using this as a jumping off point to promote their agendas.

    Most of the posts are illustrated with a photo of Umar taken at some conference somewhere holding a big sword with a scowl on his face…

     

  • johnpi 8:29 am on January 25, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    An AP article looks at the issue of extremism and al Shabaab support among Swedish Somali refugees.

    “It’s a small group but they have power,” said Abadirh Abdi Hussein, a 25-year-old hip-hop artist and “110-percent Muslim” who has become the best known Somali in Rinkeby because of his campaign to counter al-Shabab’s influence. “People don’t speak up against them. They don’t dare.”
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    Hussein, the hip-hop artist, said youth who were approached by al-Shabab told him they were shown videos of al-Qaida suicide bombings and urged to become jihadists in their ancestral homeland.

    As his worries worsened, he started going public to Swedish media on the issue last year. Since then, resistance to the extremists has grown and last month dozens showed up for a rally against al-Shabab in Rinkeby.

    The singer’s campaign has also prompted Swedish politicians to talk about the spread of extremism in immigrant suburbs, something that in the past might have drawn charges of being hostile to Muslims.

    “He is a real hero,” said Nalin Pekgul, a leading politician for the opposition Social Democrats said of Hussein. Pekgul, a Kurdish immigrant, is an outspoken critic of the radicals.

    But Hussein has paid a price. In September he was attacked on the street by a masked man who slashed his forehead with a sharp object – he has an inch-long scar – and warned him in Somali to “leave us alone or we’ll kill you.” Police haven’t found a suspect.

     

  • willow 5:35 pm on January 21, 2010 | 9 Permalink | Reply
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    Michael Muhammad Knight, in his own words, received via email today:

    Before posting on his blog, he [Umar] sent the threat to me as a personal message. A private communication between two people is not showmanship, and it’s not satire. I don’t know the man from a bucket of paint. We have had no prior contact and I am not a reader of his blog. When I receive a message like that from an absolute stranger, I owe the person nothing.

    When he posted the threat publicly, he also mentioned where I live and attend school, and challenged Muslims in the area to do something about me. I do not believe that it helps the Muslim community to have any tolerance for this behavior.

    It was with the consultation of a well-regarded community leader that I contacted the FBI. After my communication with the FBI, Umar retracted his statement.

    Having heard MMK’s side of the story, assuming he is telling the truth, I no longer believe Umar Lee to be a sane man.

     

  • johnpi 11:33 pm on January 20, 2010 | 50 Permalink | Reply
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    Taqwacore writer Michael Muhammad Knight filed a complaint with the FBI about Umar Lee making threats against him. I blogged about the threat here.

     

  • johnpi 8:21 pm on January 12, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    The organizer of a Muslim rally against extremist violence in Detroit says he received a death threat from a man claiming he was upset that the organizer spoke out against fellow Muslims.

    There’s an account of the conversation between the two, which was partially recorded.

     

  • johnpi 5:17 am on October 1, 2009 | 4 Permalink | Reply
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    A former Muslim turned atheist says he is receiving death threats in Oklahoma.

    Sabri Husibi, a former Muslim who is now an atheist, says he has been ostracized and threatened with death since publication of a Tulsa World article Saturday in which he was critical of Islam and all other religions.

    The article was written to promote a talk he gave the next day to the Tulsa Atheists organization.

    Husibi, who has an unlisted telephone number, said he received about 30 calls Saturday from people who were cursing him, calling him a traitor and threatening him.

    Most were foreign-born, Tulsa-area Muslims whom he knows, he said. He also received angry calls from friends and relatives in Syria.

    One caller, whom Husibi would not identify, said that if he spoke at the meeting and said anything against Shariah (Islamic law), he would be killed.

    Another caller offered Husibi’s young Muslim wife $10,000 to leave him and return to her native Syria, he said.

     

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