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Internet driving hate site surge
Racists are using a Martin Luther King website as a front
The net is being used by racist and "terrorist" groups trying to recruit new members and spread their message.
A report detailing 200 of the extremist websites monitored by the Wiesenthal Center shows how websites have become key fund-raising and marketing outlets.
Some sites feature games that let visitors "shoot" illegal immigrants, J*ws and black people, said the report.
In 2004 websites seeking to recruit youngsters to join holy wars and become suicide bombers have surged, it said.
Web of hatred
Jewish human rights group T
e Simon Wiesenthal Center monitors 4,000 websites used by racist, "terrorist" and other extremist organisations. It has been tracking such hate sites for about nine years.
The latest repor
t s
ows how important the net has become to these extremists, which includ
es racists, "terrorist" groups and homophobic organisations, and details the way that the groups use websites to spread their messages.
Racist sites use the net to distort history by denying the Holocaust as well as promoting new falsehoods such as the lie that Israel and the US were behind the 9/11 attacks.
The Wiesenthal Center said one of the most "troubling" sites was about Martin Luther King but was owned by a racist organisation and was being used to denigrate his memory and achievements.
Supporters of militant Islam organisations, such as al-Qaeda, are also using websites to recruit new members and to venerate members of the organisation carrying out attacks.
The Wiesenthal
Center said it did not intend to shut down the websites or stifle free speech.
"This is for public awareness," said Mark Weitzman, director of the center's Task Force Agai
nst
Hate
.
E
arlier versions of the Wiesenthal's report on the websites have been used in schools, colleges and law enforc
ement agencies around the world to educate people about the extent and range of extremist sites on the web.
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It seems that anyone is disagrees with them is an extremist.
madkins
Internet driving hate site surge
Racists are using a Martin Luther King website as a front
The net is being used by racist and "terrorist" groups trying to recruit new members and spread their message.
A report detailing 200 of the extremist websites monitored by the Wiesenthal Center shows how websites have become key fund-raising and marketing outlets.
Some sites feature games that let visitors "shoot" illegal immigrants, J*ws and black people, said the report.
In 2004 websites seeking to recruit youngsters to join holy wars and become suicide bombers have surged, it said.
Web of hatred
Jewish human rights group T
e Simon Wiesenthal Center monitors 4,000 websites used by racist, "terrorist" and other extremist organisations. It has been tracking such hate sites for about nine years.
The latest repor
t s
ows how important the net has become to these extremists, which includ
es racists, "terrorist" groups and homophobic organisations, and details the way that the groups use websites to spread their messages.
Racist sites use the net to distort history by denying the Holocaust as well as promoting new falsehoods such as the lie that Israel and the US were behind the 9/11 attacks.
The Wiesenthal Center said one of the most "troubling" sites was about Martin Luther King but was owned by a racist organisation and was being used to denigrate his memory and achievements.
Supporters of militant Islam organisations, such as al-Qaeda, are also using websites to recruit new members and to venerate members of the organisation carrying out attacks.
The Wiesenthal
Center said it did not intend to shut down the websites or stifle free speech.
"This is for public awareness," said Mark Weitzman, director of the center's Task Force Agai
nst
Hate
.
E
arlier versions of the Wiesenthal's report on the websites have been used in schools, colleges and law enforc
ement agencies around the world to educate people about the extent and range of extremist sites on the web.
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It seems that anyone is disagrees with them is an extremist.
madkins