{"id":3721,"date":"2011-02-07T03:17:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2011-02-07T03:21:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:21:27","slug":"targeted-advertising-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3721","title":{"rendered":"Targeted advertising \/ recruitment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8211; a Zenpundit exclusive! ]<\/p>\n<p>I was browsing the web looking for court papers from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/01\/31\/uk-britain-terrorism-idUKTRE70U63U20110131\">case of Rajib Karim<\/a> today, and one of the links I got took me to an <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.islamicawakening.com\/f47\/write-rajib-karim-ba-staff-terror-suspect-34631\/\">Islamic Awakening<\/a> page &#8212; which is to say, to an English-language, <a href=\"http:\/\/fletcher.tufts.edu\/forum\/archives\/pdfs\/35-1pdfs\/Brachman-Levine.pdf\">pro-jihadist forum founded by Yousef al-Khattab<\/a> &#8212; where I found myself facing some unexpected advertising&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/quotargeted-advertising.jpg\" title=\"quotargeted-advertising.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/quotargeted-advertising.jpg\" alt=\"quotargeted-advertising.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let me get this straight.  The pro-jihadist website <strong>Islamic Awakening<\/strong> is now receiving funds from a university that wants to train future diplomats and some schools for aspiring police officers?<\/p>\n<p>If so, do these educational establishments imagine they&#8217;re recruiting from the pool of wannabe jihadists who supposedly frequent the site &#8212; or from folks already in the FBI and counter-terrorism business, who may by now be the site&#8217;s only remaining readers?<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s a pretty subtle approach &#8212; and almost as much fun to stumble across as the <strong>Bold Christian clothing<\/strong> ad that I found on a previous visit to <strong>Islamic Awakening<\/strong>&#8230; do you <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3693\">remember that?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8211; a Zenpundit exclusive! ] I was browsing the web looking for court papers from the case of Rajib Karim today, and one of the links I got took me to an Islamic Awakening page &#8212; which is to say, to an English-language, pro-jihadist forum founded by Yousef al-Khattab &#8212; where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,119,526,389,102,34,483,113,68,371,239,210,380,562,473,436,247,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-attention","category-charles-cameron","category-counterintuitive","category-diplomacy","category-education","category-extremists","category-framing","category-fun","category-humor","category-ic","category-islamist","category-organizations","category-perception","category-propaganda","category-psychology","category-reader-response","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}