Jihad Comes to MySpace: Radical Islamic Rap

Soldiers of Allah, the controversial fundamentalist Islamic hip hop group, are now on MySpace. Many will find this to be an odd juxtaposition. Seeing how MySpace seems to be the hangout of choice for Emo bands, heathens, and 13-year-old girls (real and otherwise), radical Islam seems to be an anachronism in such an environment. But who says jihadism is not in need of social networking?

We realize this is not the way to revive the Omaha
but just a tool to motivate Muslim
to go to the real source which is Islam
It is Islam that organize our lifes
and Islam which shows us the method to revive
We encourage and invite you to listen
and think about the ideas that was presented

Soldiers of Allah | MySpace

In other words, fundamentalist Muslims have realized that casual Muslims have MySpace accounts. If they create a MySpace accound, maybe they can get a little social networking to happen, and before you know it, a casual Muslim is no longer so casual. Whether it works or not, I don't know, but upon checking Soldiers of Allah's friends, many are women and most them are not wearing a hijjab.

Which brings me to an altogether different point. Soldiers of Allah offends me not so much because of their message — I'm not afraid of fundamentalism — but because their music is altogether terrible. They can't stay on beat, their rhymes induce wincing, and there's just no flow. Can't these guys at least put a little more craft into their work?

In any sense, if you are of the opinion radical Islam is absolutely averse to Western culture, get your head out of the clouds. Radical Islam does have its practical side, as you can see here. It's not afraid to use hip hop, street culture, and MySpace if it can get its message across. They'll use more of it if they believe it will work.

Here's your proof.