Bad News on the American Fascist Front

Bombislam.com is now up and running again.

Robert Sterkeson of Mesa/Glendale, Arizona has e-mailed me several times to make the point that he has been able to find an ISP to host him that does not censor hate speech. He's very happy about this. He has also included a dedication on the site's homepage that includes my mailing address in Seattle (but I don't actually live in Seattle, only collect my mail there). So needless to say Robert is acting a little threatening. My guess is that he wants people to send hatemail (or mailbombs) to me about Bombislam.

So, since Robert Sterkeson has once again violated normal ethical guidelines (as if running a hate site isn't enough) I thought it might be a good idea to contact his ISP a couple more times to ask them to shut down the website. Maybe you guys can help.

His new ISP is 1ST-AMENDMENT.NET which is a hosting company that says that is is all about free speech and will not censor content. However, in their Acceptable Use Section they state that the following two conditions are acceptable reasons for them to terminate an account:

#1 Threats: Use of the 1st-amendment.org service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that threatens or encourages bodily harm or destruction of property and which helps others to break copyright law by promoting warez software, music, movies and games exchange tools, memberships and lists.

#2 Harassment: Use of the 1st-amendment.org service to transmit any material (by e-mail, uploading, posting or otherwise) that harasses another.

Since Robert Sterkeson is in violation of both of these I think it would make sense for them to shut down the website once again. His website not only has innumerable threats against muslims around the world including several images of him shooting firearms at islamic effigies, but he has target personal attacks against me.

It would be great if you could write a few letters to the ISP to tell them how you feel about Bombislam.com. The address for the support people is: support@1st-amendment.org

Or you can file an abuse claim here: http://www.1st-amendment.org/support/index.php?a=add&cat=2

And, hey, if you want to drop a line to sterkeson himself to tell him in the nicest ways possible to shut down his site do so here:

Sterkeson, Robert
rob1337@hotmail.com
5510 W Pershing Ave
Glendale, AZ 85304
US,

Phone: (602)377-9890

I Killed BombIslam.com

A few days ago an Internet troll posted a short comment on my other blog Bodyhack that caught my attention, but not because he made a thought provoking and intelligent point. The author of the comment, Brian, hosted a website called BombIslam.com that compared the world population of Muslims as an aberrant strain of HIV that could only be cured with TNT and hydrogen bombs. Brian had been posting comments all over the Internet trying to drive traffic to his site, and was surprisingly good at garnering traffic. The site had been registered only a few months ago and according to his site meter he had over 20,000 hits.

I deleted his comment, but not before I checked out the website.

What I found was a long list of videos showing cartoon Arabs in compromised positions with animals, videos of the sites authors shooting Korans with rifles and Brian wearing a ninja outfit and posing with his gun. Interspersed throughout were long diatribes about what all muslims should be killed.

Here's a snippet of their hate speech:

Islam's army of madmen rode out of the deserts of Arabia. They raped/conquered and enslaved the minds of all the people in the area and to this day more than a billion people have been infected with the mental disease we know as Islam. I urge my fellow Americans to boycott all Muslim businesses and write your congressmen to stop the billions of dollars in foreign aid to Muslim countries, stop all future Muslim immigration, and BAN ISLAM.

And then there was this passage.

According to the demon worshippers, "Allah" is the one true God. Now Allah is pretty much Satan, but Muslims have been convinced that he is God. The pedophile and mass murderer known as Muhammed(may pig shit cover him) was a completely delusional psychopath

Needless to say, I didn't really like these guys. I thought about writing them a little message saying that they were idiots, but I figured that engaging these folks in open debate would be pointless. I decided that I could spread a little good will as one of the vast majority of world's sane American by doing what I could to shut down their website.

I logged their URL into the WhoIs database with the intention of finding out who registered the site. Not to my surprise, whoever Brian is, he didn't want to leave his contact details. I did, however, discover that they were located somewhere in Arizona and they were using a service provider called Tucows to host their web space.

I found a feedback form at Tucows and sent a short message stating that they were hosting a website that was clearly proffering hate speech and was not in compliance with federal guidelines that require website owners to register valid contact information. I suggested that they shut the site down.

It was a shot in the dark, and not likely to work. While free speech is still the rule in America, Internet hosting companies have the ability to decide what sorts of content they want to put online. I was hoping that the good people at Tucows were somewhat liberal in their viewpoint and would see BombIslam.com for what it was.

Later that afternoon I received this simple e-mail response:

Dear Customer,

Thank you for contacting the StartLogic Abuse Team.
We have addressed the issue.

Kind Regards,
StartLogic Abuse Team

I killed BombIslam.com

If for scholarly purposes you are interested in what BombIslam used to look like, there is still a Google cache of the site still up. The videos however went down with their server. If you want to send a short message to Brian at BombIslam.com expressing your condolences, or just want to say hi his e-mail address is rob1337@hotmail.com.

And so the story of BombIslam.com comes to an end. Their URL is no longer active, and a little piece of internet hate speech has been wiped clean.