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September 8, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield 3 Comments

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

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Twitter liked claiming credit for the overthrow of Mubarak, but now its social media organization is largely at the disposal of Jihadis. The company has had a fitful and uneven record when it comes to cracking down on terrorist accounts.

Despite occasional takedowns, multiple ISIS accounts are active and running including ISIS Media Hub. You can easily see ISIS Jihadists displaying photos of prisoners, trophies and corpses.
But even the occasional shutdowns have angered ISIS supporters who until recently were thanking their Allah deity for Twitter.

“Praise be to Allah, who gave Twitter to the mujahideen so that they may share their joys and not have listen to the BBC, al-Arabia, Al-Jazeera,” an ISIS affiliate wrote on his Twitter page in Arabic.
The message posted under the profile entitled “Soldiers of Iraq and the Levant,” triggered enthusiastic responses from dozens of jihadists who ‘Praised Allah” for the media platform.

But now they’re less enchanted with Allah’s work on Twitter.

ISIS-affiliated terrorists tweeted a series of death threats to Twitter employees in San Francisco and across Europe, encouraging “lone wolf” attacks on the company’s workers as revenge for shutting down ISIS accounts.
The Twitter account, @dawlamoon, claimed to represent Al Nusra Al Maqdisia, which declared its loyalty to ISIS last February, Vocativ reports. The group, apparently displeased with Twitter for shutting down the accounts of ISIS terrorists, tweeted several threats to the social media giant’s workers, targeting those in San Francisco and Europe.
Along with the hashtag “#TheConceptOfLoneWolfAttacks,” the account signaled its anger with Twitter management’s apparent “campaign” against the vicious terrorist group. The group also included the note “AttackingTwitterEmployees” in one tweet.

“The time has arrived to respond to Twitter’s management by directly attacking their employees and physically assassinating them!! Those who will carry this out are the sleeper cells of death,” one tweet read, according to Vocativ’s translation.

Now that the terror is hitting home, maybe Twitter will finally stop hosting terrorist accounts. Aside from ISIS, Hamas and Hezbollah are both on Twitter.

Twitter also insisted on keeping the Taliban up because they weren’t an official terrorist group.

Joe Lieberman, chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, called on the firm this week to shut down accounts that support the Taliban.
Twitter reportedly rebuffed his call on grounds that the Taliban is not officially designated as Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the State Department.

The Pakistani Taliban account is still up, it just hasn’t bothered to Tweet since last year.