“BC”, the British police-described “angelic looking boy”, nabbed by his school for sending beheading videos to his classmates, is not a one-of-a-kind lad.
BC’s peers were receiving “sick videos” of Westerners being beheaded through their cell phones.
Proving out the old adage that a book cannot be judged by its cover, a police mugshot of the violence-loving teen depicts "a fair-haired child so short that his face was barely in the frame of the camera".
Unfortunately, the beheadings sent to his schoolmates were horrifically real.
"Anti-terrorism chiefs have said the example revealed how violent extremism is spreading "like a virus infecting young minds." (Telegraph.co.uk, June 25, 2008). "The blonde, white schoolboy from West Yorkshire is among 120 people being dealt with by police in a new anti-terrorism scheme targeting al-Qaeda inspired youths"
There must be thousands of young "computer geeks" out there who could catch the BCs of the Internet.
In other words, a concerted effort by the “good guys” could catch al-Qaida wannabes before they do any real damage or graduate to the next level.
Catchingthebadguys, or a similar domain name, could be an idea whose time has come.
Somehow politically correct times have all but wiped out the Good Guy/Bad Guy culture among today’s youth.
Hollywood with its recent spate of movies romanticizing bad guy protagonists whose conduct is justified on the silver screen has helped create the concept that it’s okay to be on the dark side.
Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) takes on the bad guy on the television program 24 every week. Season 7 kicks off next January.
In the words of Joel Surnow, executive producer of 24, the series stands out for embracing old-fashioned notions of right and wrong, and for portraying its protagonist Jack Bauer as a heroic figure for doing whatever it takes to protect his loved ones and his nation.
“At a time when it has become culturally taboo to portray radical Islam in a bad light, the show does not hesitate to make Muslim terrorists the bad guys,” Surnow said in an interview.
Youngsters with a computer and an Internet connection can be Jack Bauers in real life.
West Yorkshire Chief Constable Sir Norman Bettison, who warned the Association of Chief Police Officers’ annual conference in Liverpool that Islamic extremism was spreading like a `virus’, explained that a pilot project that’s been running in his district for the past nine months, is intended as a bridge between the community and police to identify people who might be attracted to, or vulnerable to, being radicalized.
But peer pressure among youth in B.C.’s age group could be more effective.
It’s not as if al-Qaida is going to go away anytime soon.
“The FBI issued a bulletin to 18,000 law enforcement agencies recently warning that al-Qaida has made new threats to use weapons of mass destruction against U.S. targets.” (Human Events, June 26, 2008). “ABC News also reported that intelligence sources have confirmed that al-Qaida plans to release a new video on the web sometime tomorrow. U.S. intelligence believes the terror group will advise its “jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to attack the West.”
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Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups are recruiting online.
Youngsters online may see al-Qaeda's habit of throwing monkey wrenches into sites they want to crash, as a challenge.
Intel statistics continue to indicate that the terrorists have no problem drawing teen help to its cause. These "helpers" are in Canadian, American and European homes aiding and abetting terrorists who want to bring down the West.
The Internet is an invention of the American military.
Maybe it's time for our youth to take it back.
Judi McLeod——Bio and Archives
-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
“BC”, the British police-described “angelic looking boy”, nabbed by his school for sending beheading videos to his classmates, is not a one-of-a-kind lad.
BC’s peers were receiving “sick videos” of Westerners being beheaded through their cell phones.
Proving out the old adage that a book cannot be judged by its cover, a police mugshot of the violence-loving teen depicts "a fair-haired child so short that his face was barely in the frame of the camera".
Unfortunately, the beheadings sent to his schoolmates were horrifically real.
"Anti-terrorism chiefs have said the example revealed how violent extremism is spreading "like a virus infecting young minds." (Telegraph.co.uk, June 25, 2008). "The blonde, white schoolboy from West Yorkshire is among 120 people being dealt with by police in a new anti-terrorism scheme targeting al-Qaeda inspired youths"
