How Facebook stood up to the terrorists

British jihadi Abu Izzadeen faces charges of financing terrorism and inciting terrorism overseas. But before his arrest, Izzadeen led a radical jihadist group called Al Muhajiroun. Like many shadowy organizations with suspicious aims, Al Muhajiroun made a Facebook group its home on the Web. That is, until Facebook administrators banned it. Izzadeen immediately protested the decision, according to the Edinburgh Journal. Izzadeen encountered a force more powerful than militant Islam: Facebook's radically indifferent customer service.
In correspondence with Facebook, Izzadeen asked them to "reconsider your hasty and unjust decision. "[God willing) I can return to making use of your otherwise fantastic site". Facebook — we fantasize Mark Zuckerberg himself typing the message — rejected the appeal. Izzadeen replied.
You are mad. I joined this site so my supporters could add me and show their support. I am not surprised. [You take] any opportunity to stamp the ummah under your heel. This is why we rise up.
Doesn't end there, though. Radical British Jihadist groups continue to actively operate and recruit students using Facebook, the Journal reports, citing one group, "Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah" as a particular example. There, posted items include Jihad: a Ten Part Compilation which describes violent jihad, or "struggle" as an "individual duty" of all Muslims.