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  • johnpi 12:14 am on January 23, 2010 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Steve Emerson, of Smearcasting fame, has a report on his blog about yet another Internet vigilante who has supposedly been bombing Islamist-leaning websites and Internet forums since the start of the year with DOS attacks (‘denial of service’).

    The latest anonymous avenger calls himself, ‘The Jester’ (the Riddler, the Joker and the Green Lantern were all taken).

    The Jester has been documenting his attacks against http://www.alemarah.info, http://www.radicalislam.org, islamicpoint.net, http://www.almaghrib.org, http://www.as-ansar.com, http://www.islamicnetwork.com, http://www.islamicawakening.com, http://www.ansarnet.info, since the beginning of 2010.

    I don’t visit any of these sites, but I’m curious if anybody who does has noticed any disrupted service since the beginning of the year.

    Emerson gives his take on weighing the pros and cons of Internet vigilantism. Most of the cons have already been pretty well described by Richard Bartholomew and have been brought up in conversation here at TI with another group of vigilantes, ‘the Cheerleaders.’ This is the first time though that I’ve seen someone try to articulate the ‘pro vigilante’ argument:

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  • johnpi 9:12 pm on November 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    ‘Muslim Mafia’ author planning new Monty Python-esque project to surveil North Carolina Muslims.

    Muslim Mafia scribe Dave Gaubatz is planning an investigative counterterrorism project in the Sunni mosques of North Carolina, and one lucky donor to the project will be invited to join his crack team of researchers. Needed for the job, according to an “urgent” post on Gaubatz’s blog: $25,000, two motorcycles, and use of one class A RV for 30 days.

    The project starts Dec. 5 and the “highest donor can travel on team” and “will work alongside Dave Gaubatz the entire 30 days,” according to the cached version of the blog post.

    Here is the cached version of Gaubatz’s blog post:

    Funds needed for NC CT Research
    Urgent need for research money to conduct first-hand research throughout NC. Primarily Sunni mosques. Team requires $25,000 total and use of a class A RV for a period of 30 daysa.

    Anyone interested in funding for this project will be designated a team member and will work alongside Dave Gaubatz the entire 30 days.

    This project will accept three interns and two fully trained researchers.

    Funders, Researchers, Interns, and highest donor can travel on team.

    All funds will be accounted for and results will be providied to all subcribers.

    Pay for Interns: $1,000 plus meals.
    Pay for Researchers: $3000.00 plus meals

    1 Class A travel bus
    2 motorcycles

    The motorcycles are for use (following Muslims?) in congested cities, Gaubatz told TPM.

     

  • johnpi 10:27 pm on October 25, 2009 | 3 Permalink | Reply
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    Glen “don’t call me Omar” Jenvey, the anti-Muslim “Obsession” pundit and liar who convinced a UK newspaper to print fake Islamist threats against Jews, has announced his conversion to Islam was fake, a mediocre gimmick with which he has gleaned a bunch of new experiences worthy of writing a book about.

    From Richard Bartholomew:

    In a video which he posted to Liveleak and then pulled (but which can still be seen in Google cache), he explains that the whole business was an exercise in infiltration, as a result of which he now knows more about Muslim extremists in Wiltshire and Hampshire, the area of the UK in which he lives (although he also met lots of moderates). He also claims he had to undertake this subterfuge because the security services are “clueless” and “institutionally racist”. He kisses a crucifix, mentions the fact that he is gay, and tells us that during his undercover period he would read the Koran while drinking beer and speak to Omar Bakri on the phone while eating a bacon sandwich and drinking wine. He also says he has been working for “an MP and a diplomat” – presumably a reference to Patrick Mercer MP, who has lately been keen to distance himself from his past association with Jenvey. We’re promised more information when he has written his book.

    Completely worthless. You could see this coming back in June.

     

  • johnpi 6:42 pm on October 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Muslim impersonator’s spy camera fell out the front of his shirt during CAIR staff meeting.

    TPM is all over the ‘Muslim spies” fiasco again tonight in an interview with Chris Gaubatz, the son of one of the authors of “Muslim Mafia,” and the one who “went undercover,” impersonating a Muslim for six months among the nefarious CAIR interns.

    Here, Gaubatz recounts how his cover was almost blown when his spy camera accidentally burst out the front of his shirt:

    Q: Did you ever come close to having your cover blown?

    A: Only once did I almost have my cover blown, which is documented in the introduction of Muslim Mafia. For the entire six months, I wore a button camera on my shirt, but at the beginning of my internship the button-cam popped off. I was sitting in the middle of about 30-40 other CAIR employees at a conference on how to deal strategically with the media. One of the other researchers happened to be with me and noticed the camera was gone. I acted like I was coughing, and slipped out to replace the camera.

    Pretty fly for a white guy to have outfoxed our eagle-eyed CAIR operatives like that. Otherwise I’m sure his Muslim impersonation was flawless.

    Gaubatz on the Muslims he met while working for CAIR:

    “They were nice people and I got along with them very well which is why I was able to retrieve the information I did,” Gaubatz says. “But just because somebody is outwardly friendly doesn’t mean they can’t be doing something wrong or even harming National Security.”

    Paraphrase: ‘They were very nice people and I took advantage of their niceness.’ What a total jerk…

     

  • johnpi 5:59 pm on October 15, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    TPM has more on the author of the book that unleashed the Republican hysteria about “Muslim spies:”

    That would be David Gaubatz, a former Air Force investigator and Arabic speaker, who dispatched his son Chris to grow a beard and go undercover as a Muslim to obtain an internship at the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Gaubatz, who has long warned about the threat of Islamism in the United States, has claimed that he found Saddam’s long-lost WMDs while in Iraq and has labeled Obama “Muslim” and a “self-admitted ‘crack head.’”

    Here’s a neat check list of teh Crazy of Gaubatz compiled by TPM:

    • He referred to “our Muslim leader” Barack Obama on his blog last year.

    • He has claimed that he personally found sites with Iraqi weapons of mass destruction when he was an agent with the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations in 2003. But the Syrians beat us to the punch on excavating the sites, Gaubatz claims, and the U.S. government suppressed the information to avoid the “explosive revelation of their own lethal incompetence.”

    • Just yesterday he wondered about Congress’ two Muslim representatives, “How much information do we have on Carson and Congressman Keith Ellison?”

    • According to Glenn Greenwald, Gaubatz in 2007 was focusing his time on creating “a comprehensive map of every mosque and Islamic school in the U.S” in order to determine which ones were preaching “Islamic law.” The Web site that explained that project has since been made private.

    • He said in September 2008 on a now scrubbed blog post at http://www.jihadishere.blogspot.com that: “We are now on the verge of allowing a self admitted ‘crack-head’ to have his finger on every nuclear weapon in America.”

    • He apparently has a history of faking conversions to Islam as part of his investigations.

     

  • johnpi 12:11 am on September 26, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    UK blogger facing sustained harassment including publication of his home address.

    The harassers claim the blogger is “in league with Islamic extremists” to justify their behavior. This is probably the same individual or individuals who post the home addresses of several Talk Islam contributors back in the spring, and who I blogged about here, and more recently, here.

     

  • johnpi 10:06 pm on August 19, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
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    Glen Jenvey confesses that he wrote fake Islamist postings which led to front-page media stories hyping false threats against UK Jews.

    Jenvey – who has since converted to Islam - admits all in a message at the forum where he originally posted his sockpuppet threats:

    Brother i’m sorry for the Allan Sugar story plant. I’m retired now from spying on Muslims. I saw a chance to install fear back in Jews who were killing Muslims.I was wrong to use you and your site.If you need any thing to help you in any way in the name of Allah just ask.

    But yes the Sun did not know who posted it.I say sorry to you from my heart. if you want show the police and get me arrested. but with the first ramadaam coming i want to clear my past sin’s before i start my fasting and pray.

    I would write this on your forum but im blocked out. may Allah reward you for your good work you do.Ameen

    Omar Hamza Jenvey
    aka
    Glen Jenvey

    Aside from the question of media gullibility, Richard Bartholomew brings up another significant issue:

    And what about the credibility (as if it ever had any) of “Obsession,” which was distributed as a free DVD to 28 million American homes in 2008, and which featured Jenvey along with the likes of Daniel Pipes, Alan Dershowitz, and Brigitte Gabriel?

     

  • johnpi 6:30 pm on August 16, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    ‘Cyber warriors’ trawl web for extremist threats.

    When analyst Nur Azlin started monitoring the websites in early 2007, most of the content was in the form of articles urging Muslims to fight back against perceived oppression, she recalled. They were usually accompanied by photos like a child allegedly maimed during an attack by coalition forces in Afghanistan or by Israeli troops in Palestine.

    In late 2007, computer hacking manuals started to appear on Southeast Asian websites, uploaded by individuals in online forums, she said. Forum participants, some of whom identified themselves as undergraduate students from Indonesia and Malaysia, urged each other to hack websites they considered to be promoting liberal Muslim views.

    “By early 2008, we started to see bomb-making manuals and bomb-making videos,” Nur Azlin recalled. With the appearance of these manuals — taken from Arabic websites — the reaction from forum participants got more virulent, as they goaded each other to take action rather than stay passive supporters or sympathisers, she said.

    In one of the exhanges, participants tried to organise arms training but some said they did not have money to buy AK-47 assault rifles, Nur Azlin said. A group called “Indonesian Airsoft Mujahideen” stepped in and offered to facilitate their training using air rifles and paintball machines, which are widely used for play sessions at corporate training seminars in Asia.

    “They would rent the place much like a team-building activity,” Nur Azlin said. “They used this training in the meantime that they don’t have their AK-47s.”

    The 101st air rifle commandos joined with the 101st keyboard commandos. You can probably add air rifle ownership to the list of activities that can get a Muslim on the government watch list.

     

  • johnpi 6:17 pm on June 22, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Sockpuppet master Glen Jenvey has announced he is converting to Islam and is changing his name to Omar Hamza Jenvey reports Richard Bartholomew.

    I wonder if this is a real conversion or the latest effort by “Obsession”-pundit Jenvey to become a super-secret agent and plum the depths of Islamofascism.

     

  • johnpi 11:46 pm on January 29, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    ‘If it weren’t for those meddling kids’: An obscure anti-Muslim blogger has complained about the Guardian newspaper relying on reports from another “obscure blogger” to expose the fraud of his friend Glen Jenvey, a purported online Muslim terrorist hunter who is in reality the sockmaster of phony Internet sockpuppet Muslim terrorists.

    Self-promoter Jenvey managed to get The Sun newspaper to splash a story across its front page that his sockpuppets were threatening prominent UK Jews.

     

  • johnpi 9:49 am on January 17, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Vigilante watch: Super-secret agents who stalk Muslims are sending each other to prison

    More about that high-energy Montana housewife who was credited with helping convict two “terrorists.” From Wikipedia, here’s a bit more about one of the “terrorists” she helped convict:

    One of the “terrorists,” Michael Curtis Reynolds, was a transient living with his mother at the time of arrest (he threatened to blow up oil pipelines). Reynolds, in his defense, “claimed that he was running an independent sting operation, hoping to expose terrorist cells working within the United States.”

     

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