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Jihad Watch is a popular
According to Spencer, Jihad Watch aims to bring public notice to the role that jihad theology and ideology plays in the modern world, and thus the site is focused on documenting the part that jihad and religion play in contemporary conflicts. [2] The site has been accused of Islamophobia by The Guardian's Middle East Editor [3], among others.
Jihad Watch was launched in October 2003 and is currently ranked in the top forty thousand most visited web sites on the internet according to the Alexa website traffic ranking service.[4] In December 2005 Robert Spencer reported that his site was getting in the range of half a million hits a day.[5]. Less than a year later the Jihad Watch site is getting between 600,000 and 1 million hits a day, according to Spencer.[6]
Jihad Watch also contributes to The Intelligence Summit, which tracks current jihadist activity worldwide.[7]
References
- ^ ROBERT SPENCER Page at Jihadwatch.
- ^ Jihad Watch
- ^ Guardian Special Report
- ^ Jihad Watch at Alexa.
- ^ Jihad Watch keeps growing.
- ^ Three years of jihad watching
- ^ Contributors The Intelligence Summit.