Filipino extremists seek funding on YouTube

Filipino Islamic extremists have posted clips on the video-sharing website, YouTube to attract funds and potential recruits. he clip by the Abu Sayyaf group is entitled The Filipino Lions Are Coming were taken from a one-hour video that was distributed throughout the Arabic-speaking jihadist community, a spokesman for the Phillipines military was quoted by The Telegraph, as saying.

London, Aug.22 : Filipino Islamic extremists have posted clips on the video-sharing website, YouTube to attract funds and potential recruits. he clip by the Abu Sayyaf group is entitled "The Filipino Lions Are Coming" were taken from a one-hour video that was distributed throughout the Arabic-speaking jihadist community, a spokesman for the Phillipines military was quoted by The Telegraph, as saying.

He said the speakers used Arabic apparently to appeal to wealthy would-be benefactors from the Middle East and featured exhaustive Arabic subtitles to document the group's activities.

Meanwhile, a professionally edited, hour-long video from the Malaysian branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group banned in dozens of countries, has also been posted, calling on the Muslim community to rise against the influence of the West.

The Hizb ut-Tahrir video, For How Much Longer?, documents the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the West's expansion into Islamic countries, and calls for Muslims to "arise and shake off the dust" of European colonialism.

The videos are part of a growing trend of the use of media and the Internet by Islamic extremists.

The armed forces in the Philippines have dismissed the YouTube posting as an "act of desperation" that showed the group was "in disarray".

ANI