The *real* Facebook (and Twitter) revolution

Chip Off the Old Block

Mark Steyn

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Do you remember a mere three years ago when the gullible sob-sisters of the western media declared the Arab Spring "the Facebook revolution"? It wasn't, of course. But what's going on right now in the Iraqi and Syrian territory held by the new Caliphate is the real Facebook revolution, and Twitter revolution, and Tumblr revolution, and YouTube revolution. These guys love social media. They can't wait to chop your head off and then zip the video footage all around the world. In the old days, when you decapitated somebody, the best you could do was stick his head on a spike on the edge of the village, and hope for good word of mouth from those terrified locals with an eye for the telling detail. Now you can saw through somebody's neck or stone a woman to death in the Sunni Triangle and, thanks to your Verizon or O2 account, your friends back in London or Frankfurt or Chicago can see it instantly! ... He is a seven-year old boy, Australian born and bred. But he's proudly holding up the latest severed head in his dad's collection. "Diversity is our strength", as they say. A family that raises their seven-year-old to participate in the decapitation celebrations certainly adds to the diversity of the Sydney suburbs. Whether it adds to their "strength" is another matter. That's why the photograph and the original Tweet matter: They reduce to rubble the central delusion of the multicultists - that progress is all one way, and that the high-tech baubles of the modern secular state are so seductive no one can resist them. Isis have transformed social media into anti-social media. To the pouty-faced passivity of presidential hashtags, these guys scoff, "Ha! You don't know how to use the Internet..." ...

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