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Extremist Thought in The New Media and Its Impact on Society… F. Abdel Sater et al (151


                             number  of  individuals             and traditional media in the past
                             and processes to the same           decades.  With  the  emergence

                             communication  tool,  in            of social  media  networks,  this
                             translating  and  tracking          invasion has turned into media
                             their movements in a single         because of its effective influence

                             technological  language             in  changing  the  culture  and
                             (Kissinger, 2015).                  values based on the behavioral
                         It  means  it  is  working  on          and intellectual orientations of

                       espionage      and      spreading         the members of society browsing
                       extremism  at  the  same  time.           it.  This  has  contributed  to  the
                       Reports indicate that there are           emergence of extremist ideologies

                       more  than  30,000  fake  accounts        within online communities that
                       with fake names on Facebook,              have become a source of great
                       belonging to individuals and officers     concern, as these communities
                       from the security and intelligence        are  led  by  influential  figures,

                       services  of  the  Israel  regime         especially  with the  emergence
                       who are fluent in all languages           of  platforms  that  promote

                       of the world. It is an attempt to         intellectual extremism that destroys
                       reach  the  largest  segment  of          human life and society.
                       Facebook  users  in  the  Arab               The  language  of  violence,
                       world  and  the  meaning  of  the         hateful speech, and extremism

                       sentence  “If  the  page  is  in          in the debates and programs of
                       Arabic,  the  target  is  the             these platforms, the Defending
                       Arabs” (Abu Nahl, 2017).                  the  Companions  and  Mothers

                         So,  how  did  the  Takfiri             of the Believers Network is one
                       system benefit from exploiting            of them on the YouTube platform
                       this  technology  to  spread  its         which has produced a generation

                       extremist  ideology  that  destroys       of  fanatical  youth  who  reject
                       human  life  and  society,  and           any other thought that has reached
                       through what platform?                    the limits of extremism. Thus,

                         The  intellectual  invasion  of         to measure the extent of influence,
                       the  East,  specifically  Islamic         researchers  should  study  the
                       thought,  has  invaded  the  new          process  of  repeatedly  publishing
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