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June 17, 2016
ISIS has found a way to pierce US counter-terrorism defenses
This is accomplished by: 1) turning the effort required plan, prepare, and execute a terrorist act into a ritual of initiation. Initiates are expected to undertake this effort on their own, without support.2) turning the act itself into a forum for a public, online declaration of fealty -- an extremely potent medieval loyalty pledge made by knights to their lords -- to the Caliph of ISIS. This pledge is made public (both attackers used Facebook to publicly pledge fealty to al Baghdadi) at the moment of the attack to maximize the meaning to the attacker and the audience. Think of it as social media performance art. - Global Guerrillas
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 17, 2016 10:54 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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The questions now are: how do we deal with the kamikaze Muslim zealots concealed among us and the fifth columnists located among our political class who are promoting subversion.o
Posted by: Stug Guts at June 18, 2016 4:59 PM