abu-izzadeen

How Facebook stood up to the terrorists

Nicholas Carlson · 02/15/08 05:00PM

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.