January 30, 2006

Cyber Attacks Against Danish Websites, Counterattacks Against Arab Sites

An interet war is brewing between a small minority of hackers who happen to be an even smaller subset of misunderstanders of Islam and Danish geeks. Viking Observer at AIR passes this translation on from the Danish media:

A large number of Danish papers´ web versions have crashed. Suspicions immediately center on the hacker attacks being because of the Mohammed-drawings in Jyllands-Posten. ..

All the web media hit are hosted on the same servers at the internet company Metropol Online, owned by Berlingske (Danish publishing house). ..

Among the media hit is the homepage of Jyllands-Postens, www.jp.dk, which creates suspicions, that hackers are trying to hit the paper as part of the row over the papers´ Mohammed-drawings.

And Danish geeks respond in kind to the cyberterrorism coming from the Muslim world. Again, from Viking Observer:
A Danish chain-mail that is circulating by email urges people to take part in a web-based attack on arab media. This happens in reaction to the hacker-attack on Danish papers´ websites over the weekend....

he email starts out with the headline "Denmark under attack by moslem hackers" and contains an attached program, that starts a so-called denial-of-service attack on five arab media, among them Al-Jazeera, Arab News og Gulf News.

In the letter the recipient is urged to let the program run on his computer to bombard the arab media with data and thus block their homepages.

Wait. They're attacking al Jazeera? Good on you. As I've argued countless times in the past, al Jazeera is part of the enemy propaganda machine and is therefore a legitimate target in the war-on-terror. It is high time the Western world employed these cyberterrorists to our own advantage. The model of the privateer comes to mind.

And for a great non-dhimmi Danish blogger, visit Enough!

Posted by: Rusty at 01:29 PM | Comments (26) | Add Comment
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1 Death To women's Rights. Death To women's Freedoms. Death To women's Liberties. Destroy feminism. Marry your daughters off at menarchy. Rape your wives. Death To women's Rights. Question: why do the europeans worship women? Are they faggots?

Posted by: m at January 30, 2006 01:49 PM (MXWyj)

2 I wonder what M is getting the little woman for Valentines Day.

Posted by: Brad at January 30, 2006 02:05 PM (3OPZt)

3 Roofies?

Posted by: Brad at January 30, 2006 02:06 PM (3OPZt)

4 m has a woman? I think he more likely has a goat.

Posted by: jesusland joe at January 30, 2006 02:11 PM (rUyw4)

5 M has been banned.

Posted by: Rusty at January 30, 2006 02:12 PM (JQjhA)

6 Oooooookaaaaay then. I'm not sure what point M was trying to make, but I am sure he completely missed.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 30, 2006 02:12 PM (0yYS2)

7 M who?

Posted by: Oyster at January 30, 2006 02:32 PM (5pqct)

8 I'm sure it made complete sense to m - which is a scary thought in itself.

Posted by: hondo at January 30, 2006 02:37 PM (3aakz)

9 He sounded like a British 'father's rights' advocate, as odd as that may sound.

Posted by: Rusty at January 30, 2006 02:49 PM (JQjhA)

10 Hey, M. Mohammad is the false prophet and Allah is his Beast. See you in hell.

Posted by: MandM at January 30, 2006 03:11 PM (/lpvu)

11 this is a really outrageous act on the danish behalf; it is a lame excuse to protect the freedom of expression by insulting the thoughts and beliefs of others. This will testify to the Danish inability to grasp the importance of being responsible to the so-called freedom ; becaues a vital part of freedom is realising one's own boundries.

Posted by: rajeh al-rajeh at January 30, 2006 04:23 PM (v811s)

12 Ha Ha Ha - you have a rather odd definition of freedom - speech, expression etc. But your presence in the West far from your islamic utopias essentially betrays your ideals and exposes you as a fraud.

Posted by: hondo at January 30, 2006 05:12 PM (3aakz)

13 "becaues a vital part of freedom is realising one's own boundries." Yep - now you just need to realize YOUR boundries. "by insulting the thoughts and beliefs of others." Typical. It's all about you and your religion, isn't it?

Posted by: Supernaut at January 30, 2006 06:07 PM (P/mhs)

14 There is a town in central Java, called Kudus. Back in 15th century, it was still a Hindu majority. Then came a muslim wali name Sunan Kudus, who establish a school and preach about Islam to the town inhabitant. Gradually the number of muslim increase. One interesting thing was, in order to respect the Hindu beliefs, Sunan Kudus prohibited his disciples and followers from eating cow meat. Even though there is nothing in Islam that prohibit so. Up until today 600 years later, with Kudus as a muslim-majority town, many of the people still restraint from eating cow. Another story, there is a church called Gereja Jawi Wetan (East Java Church). Since its establishment in 19th century, it has prohibited its congregation from eating pork, to respect their muslim neighbour. What do you think ?

Posted by: jarot at January 30, 2006 07:14 PM (6Xjty)

15 jarot, I think that people who come to Europe should respect the traditions of Europe, just like Sunan Kudas respected the tradition of the Hindus and Gereja Jawi Wetan respected the tradition of the Muslims.

Posted by: jesusland joe at January 30, 2006 07:26 PM (rUyw4)

16 jarot I think your full of bull - nice parable though for a sermon.

Posted by: hondo at January 30, 2006 07:30 PM (3aakz)

17 You mean someone is spreading some .exe or script among Danes and asking them to use it to attack Al Jazeera, et al??? Maybe this script is actually a nasty virus created by the Islamo-Fascist Cyber-Terrorists and it is gonna do something mailicious to the poor Danes who thought they were attacking someone else??? You don't know what kind of twisted minds they have in the Middle East.... P.S. If the Islamists want THEIR religion respected by others, they should respect OTHER religions, as well. Instead, they destroy other houses of worship (e.g. Jewish Temple Mount in Jeruslem, Hindu Temple at Ayodyah, and more with Christian churches and Buddhist temples....). As it is, the rest of the world has tolerated Islamic intolerance for so long that the Arabs/Muslims get upset when their own intolerance is not tolerated.... The M.E. is a very strange place...

Posted by: Jake at January 30, 2006 10:59 PM (M4Fn3)

18 jesusland joe, i think to respect someone's faith or values can be done be it in Europe or anywhere. when i spoke to my Dutch guest, I can talk openly and addressing him with his name directly without worry of offending him. i accept the openness as part of the values hold by my Dutch guest. in the other hand I won't use the same openness to my fellow countrymen, because many of them will find it offesinve. another case, asking "where are you going", or "where have you been" to a complete stranger are considered to be a part of polite conversation by my fellow countrymen. while the same questions to my Dutch guess, get a reply "that's none of your business".

Posted by: jarot at January 31, 2006 07:55 AM (tN4d5)

19 It is coordinated dos attacks and dos tools that are affecting the Danish sites. More information can be found here regarding the boycott and the cyber attacks: http://www.wincoast.com/forum/showthread.php?p=527904#post527904

Posted by: Casey at February 01, 2006 12:10 PM (c0QDg)

20 The Danish cartoons are nasty and repulsive. Muslims are right to condemn them and boycott filthy Danish products.

Posted by: Aamir Ali at February 01, 2006 01:20 PM (tKxm6)

21 Strange that we don't see bands of marauding buddhists threatening to kill anyone who eats meat ?? Or bands of guerilla pig farmers parachuting into Syria forcing the faithful to eat pork ?!

Posted by: cartoon lover at February 03, 2006 10:07 AM (VrREW)

22 Where was all the protests when the crazy muslims were blowing up all the staues of budda ?

Posted by: TJ at February 03, 2006 03:55 PM (9Uqlj)

23 Feck them rag wearing fagots, I say its all a load of tosh, don't believe any of that shite. fredom to garfield, Fcuk the prophet Mohammed with some pork sausages.

Posted by: Fcuk Mohammed at February 04, 2006 06:50 PM (7vXIb)

24 My best friend said I had to visit your site. She was right,thanks!

Posted by: Lora at February 04, 2006 11:30 PM (+uNoj)

25 These cartoons have raised, according to me, the question of the freedom of speech's boundaries. Are we stepping on other's freedom by publishing these cartoons? (and don't tell me it's just a cartoon, critics may have more impact than acts) Example: If you share a flat with a jewish friend for instance and you hang posters in your room of Hitler or Mussolini(cuz your a fan, it's your right to be fan of whoever you want). There's no law or legal act that prohibits you from having these posters in your room because it's the freedom of thoughts and beliefs. But you will not gain the sympathy and the friendship of your flat mate obviously. Therefore, if we want to live together in peace with our muslim neighbors, we have to be careful not to offense them. Of course, in a hypothetic utopia of freedom of speech these cartoons should be allowed. But learning to live together is more than just saying "i can say whatever i want cuz it's freedom of speech", it's also to be careful to what you say and what we do according to OTHER'S beliefs and thoughts. I would prefer the phrase "HOW TO LIVE TOGETHER" rather than "FREEDOM OF SPEECH". "Freedom of speech", as much as "democracy", have been overused by media and have been uprooted from their social-economical-historical initial context, to end up as an political oriented instrument.

Posted by: Khaled at February 10, 2006 08:03 AM (6ygiN)

26 Why don't people start waking up to the real world instead of believing in instituions some created over 1500 years ago. Religion in any form was in those times a system of law which worked well when there was no form of organised policing, as time went on eventually religion become nothing more than a reason to go to war and break those very rules that they were created to police. People who still believe in religion, the after life etc should face up to the truth, they are believing in no more than a story, and as everyone knows stories change with time until they fade away completely. The various religious texts have all been manipulated with time to suit those in power at the time. During the times that they were written very few could even read or write therefore relying on the preaching and word's of others, they may as well be hear-say rather than evidence of actual history. On a side note- If the goal as preached by many of the religious fanatics is for a united Muslim nation, Palestine nation, or any other such claim why are all these groups still in fighting amongst them selves. If you cant even unify as groups do you really think you can unify the world all under one religion. At least the west doesnt preach happiness, freedom and love all for changing faith, the west has already experienced the difficulties of unification and has still never managed to get it right. Along the way one critical lesson has been learnt that violence, war and terrorism will not acheive anything even if you declare it in a holy way as was done with the Crusades and now with Jihad.

Posted by: S J at February 14, 2006 05:47 PM (UOLR0)

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