Friday, December 19, 2008

Jihadist Group Trying To 'Invade' Facebook Gets Shut Down


From FOX News:

A quickly growing jihadist group that used Facebook to spread its radical message has been shut down by the popular Web networking site after FOXNews.com alerted the company to the group's activities.

Facebook blocked the group, Fursan Ghazawat Alnusra — Arabic for "Knights in Support of the Invasion" — Thursday evening after the group swelled to about 120 members in just over one week.

The group had been exhorting its members to wage "Jihad to aid the religion of Allah and his Prophet."

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My Comment: I made a post earlier in the day on this story. I must give credit to Facebook. They moved very quick to get rid of this garbage.

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