Jihadists – ‘embarrassing to Muslims – turn to alternative social network

An open-source Diaspora is struggling with the legal implications that those connected to it will face after jihadists started posting propaganda on the social network. This was after Twitter and YouTube clamped down on Islamic State imaged, video, and text. The network, which has some 1 million users, is “powerless to stop them,” according to a report in The Guardian. Meanwhile, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, said the scale of the slaughter wrought by the extremists in overrunning large swathes of Iraq and Syria and the level of violence being used was appalling. He branded the actions of Islamic State militants “embarrassing” to the religion and urged Islamic leaders to unite in tackling extremism.

Read the story on Indonesia’s call against ISIS here.