Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Should Help Stop ISIS, Jeb Bush Says
Calling the rise of the Islamic State around the world a "pandemic," 2016 Republican presidential candidate former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said the U.S. government needs to work with social media companies to stop the Islamic militant group from using their platforms to recruit followers.
"Seven years ago, the long awaited jihadist Caliphate existed only in the fevered imagination of the terrorist. Today, the radicals' Caliphate exists as an actual place occupying a stretch of land larger than Indiana," said Bush Monday during an address on foreign policy at the Reagan Library in California.
"ISIS, a genocidal terrorist army, controls large parts of two countries and is gaining influence in others. And yet well into this nightmare, President Obama's administration by its own admission has no strategy to stop it," he said.
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"A halting, ineffective effort against them has only emboldened these terrorists leaving the pandemic unchecked. Mosul, Fallujah, Ramadi and other cities that American and allied troops died to liberate are now under the black flag of ISIS," he noted about conditions in Iraq.
"Inside the caliphate, non-believers are forced to convert, and those who do not, can expect a horrible fate. A special hatred is reserved for Christians and other religious minorities. In the Middle East today, we're witnessing the mass persecution and exodus of the followers of Jesus Christ all across the region. Nor is there any allowance for the adherents of Islam found lacking in zeal by ISIS which has filled mass graves with innocent Muslims," he explained.
"Potential recruits of ISIS, ready for their own taste of violence can even follow it all on social media. It's a time when mass murderers have Twitter handles, Facebook and Instagram pages, using these to add the veneer of glamor to their exploits," Bush noted before calling for a collaborative effort with social media companies to stop the Islamic State.
"We need to work with the owners of these relevant companies to give careful thought on how we address this problem. Among followers worldwide, ISIS is hailed as the strong horse, the glorious cleanser and restorer of Islam. And that word is getting out on western-based social media. This helps explain the spread of ISIS and the terrorist pandemic spreading in the Middle East and beyond including thousands recruited from Europe and more than a hundred from America giving us ISIS terrorists with western passports," said Bush.
"The Islamic state and its followers are an asymmetric threat needing just one big strike to inflict devastation. We're facing an ISIS and its ideology what it is, to borrow a phrase 'the focus of evil in the modern world.' And civilized nations everywhere, especially those with power have a duty to oppose and defeat this enemy," he noted.
In June the State Department concluded that ISIS was winning the social media war. According to The New York Times ISIS with its "violent narrative — promulgated through thousands of messages each day — has effectively 'trumped' the efforts of some of the world's richest and most technologically advanced nations" in this regard.
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Posted by Takmeel-e-Pakistan on Friday, July 11, 2014
