Islamists Target the Internet

Islamists are targeting the internet.

Michelle Malkin has been banned from the UAE. The only service provider in the UAE, Etisalat, is government owned and everything going through it is filtered. Michelle's site is being filtered out so no one accessing the internet in UAE can see it.

Debbie Schlussel's reaction is quite right:

Why did the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ban Michelle Malkin's site? Was it her just outrage about the Dubai Ports World deal to control six of our ports? Or was it her publishing of the Mohammed cartoons and her thorough exposition of the global Islamic violence in response to the cartoons?

Regardless of the reason, it's yet another reason we can't let them control our ports. If they'll censor out her site from over there, what will they do when they are controlling vital points of entry and shipping here in America?

The government of UAE doesn't have any tolerance for dissent. Don't forget, Dubai Ports World is owned by the UAE government.

Now, jihadists are hacking Western internet sites. From the NY Post:

Muslim computer-hacker gangs have launched a massive attack on Danish and Western Web sites as part of the mass protests across the Arab world over the publication of cartoons making fun of the Prophet Mohammed.

The cyber-crime monitoring group Zone-H.org said in a statement that more than 1,000 Danish, Israeli and European sites were defaced or shut down by Islamic hackers in the last week.

And experts fear that's just the beginning of what could be a massive cyber-jihad stretching from the Middle East and Europe to the United States and dominating cyberspace for weeks, costing millions of dollars. "We have definitely seen a spike in the number of attacks. This definitely appears to be the result of the controversy over the Prophet Mohammed cartoons," said Jim Melnick of the cyber-security firm iDefense. "A full-blown e-jihad is a real possibility."

In Denmark, where the cartoon crisis first erupted, more than 578 Web sites have been struck by hackers, Zone-H.org reported. Web targets included Jyllands-Posten, the newspaper that published the 12 cartoons, a Danish country-music site, a gambling site and a motorcycle-fan site, experts said.

Most of the attacks are "defacements," in which sites are hacked and sprayed with messages.

The e-graffiti mixes profanity with calls for an Islamic boycott of Danish goods and warnings of suicide bombings.

In a message on a defaced Danish Web site, infamous retired hacker "Darkblood" said he returned to hacking because of the "heinous mistake and dreadful deviation from the path of justice, reverence and equality" brought on by the cartoons' publication.

Again, more reason why we can't let them intimidate us.