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Parents warned of online militants
Laurie Nowell
June 29, 2008
THE FEDERAL Government has issued a warning to parents to be vigilant amid increasing evidence of Islamic extremists using the net to try to recruit Australian children.
Websites, chatrooms and YouTube postings are being used to promote radical Islamic doctrine, including hatred of the West, Jihad and the subjugation of women.
Net postings, some linked to children's internet sites, carry messages of hate and violence from known international terror suspects.
In two hours, a Sunday Herald Sun investigation found examples of young Australians being assailed with radical propaganda on Islamic chatrooms.
And there are dozens of extremist messages of hate or violence posted on pages just a click or two aw
ay from mainstream websites.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland warned parents to be vigilant about who their children contacted through the internet.
A spokesman for Mr McClelland said security and intelligence services had increased their vigilance in looking at electronic communications.
While trawling Islamic web and chat sites, the Sunday Herald Sun uncovered two apparent conversations between Australians and foreign extremists and dozens of postings of militant Islamic views and exhortations.
In one entry, a young Melburnian appears to be speaking to a radical Pakistan-based recruiter.
The recruiter says: "Jihad is all. We must destroy the unbelievers. . ."
The respondent, who lists themselves as from Brunswick, Australia, says: "It is true the words of the prophet Mohammed is the true faith, but the prophet preaches peace."
The recruiter replies: "How can there be peace when the brothers and sisters in Iraq and Afghanistan are being slaughtered by
the infidel . . ."
The security services confirmed the growing threat of net-based extremism and had ramped up monitoring programs and interception technology.
ASIO chief Paul O'Sullivan said in reports to Parliament the intelligence service had increased staff and surveillance resources in the past year.
The 24-hour National Security Hotline: 1800 123 400
For advice on internet filters and protection: www.netalert.gov.au
Parents warned of online militants
Laurie Nowell
June 29, 2008
THE FEDERAL Government has issued a warning to parents to be vigilant amid increasing evidence of Islamic extremists using the net to try to recruit Australian children.
Websites, chatrooms and YouTube postings are being used to promote radical Islamic doctrine, including hatred of the West, Jihad and the subjugation of women.
Net postings, some linked to children's internet sites, carry messages of hate and violence from known international terror suspects.
In two hours, a Sunday Herald Sun investigation found examples of young Australians being assailed with radical propaganda on Islamic chatrooms.
And there are dozens of extremist messages of hate or violence posted on pages just a click or two aw
ay from mainstream websites.
Attorney-General Robert McClelland warned parents to be vigilant about who their children contacted through the internet.
A spokesman for Mr McClelland said security and intelligence services had increased their vigilance in looking at electronic communications.
While trawling Islamic web and chat sites, the Sunday Herald Sun uncovered two apparent conversations between Australians and foreign extremists and dozens of postings of militant Islamic views and exhortations.
In one entry, a young Melburnian appears to be speaking to a radical Pakistan-based recruiter.
The recruiter says: "Jihad is all. We must destroy the unbelievers. . ."
The respondent, who lists themselves as from Brunswick, Australia, says: "It is true the words of the prophet Mohammed is the true faith, but the prophet preaches peace."
The recruiter replies: "How can there be peace when the brothers and sisters in Iraq and Afghanistan are being slaughtered by
the infidel . . ."
The security services confirmed the growing threat of net-based extremism and had ramped up monitoring programs and interception technology.
ASIO chief Paul O'Sullivan said in reports to Parliament the intelligence service had increased staff and surveillance resources in the past year.
The 24-hour National Security Hotline: 1800 123 400
For advice on internet filters and protection: www.netalert.gov.au