Muslim cleric Musa Cerantonio, the third most liked person by western jihadists in Syria, called for assassination of US politicians
A radical Australian preacher revealed to be using social media to encourage acts of terrorism has had his Facebook page taken down following a Guardian investigation.
The California company confirmed it took action to remove the page following revelations that Musa Cerantonio, an Islamic preacher from west Melbourne, was urging some 12,000 subscribers to “assassinate” US politicians.
A second US radical is believed to have deleted his own Twitter account after the Guardian and the BBC reported that he had twice praised the deaths of British Muslim fighters killed in Syria on the microblogging site.
In one post from 16 December, Cerantonio told his followers: “If we see that Muslims are being killed by the tyrant leaders of the USA then we must first stop them with our hands [ie by force]. This means that we should stop them by fighting them, by assassinating their oppressive leaders, by weakening their offensive capabilities etc … This is not something that is beyond us at all,” he wrote.
It is understood Cerantonio’s Facebook posts violated the site’s community standards on violence. The company, which says it works with law enforcement in the event of an urgent threat, added that the networking site was a place where beliefs, however abhorrent, could be shared.
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