Amy Winehouse & Gaza

[Dieval]

Is she a valid target as a "reaction to the current conflict in the Gaza region"?

Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson 'targeted by Islamic extremists'

01/07/2009 4:00 PM, Yahoo! Music

Reports have emerged today (January 7) claiming that Amy Winehouse and Mark Ronson have been included on a "terror target" hit list made in reaction to the current conflict in the Gaza region.

The Sun said comments were made on the forum of Ummah.com.

A post on the forum apparently called for users to compile "a list of top Jews we can target," which included both Winehouse and Ronson's names.

British anti-terror expert Glen Jenvey told The Sun that the comments should be taken seriously.

"The Ummah website has been used by extremists," he said.

http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/61952122

You decide.

[Charlatan]

What can she do about it? If they want to kill her she is beig brought into the war on terror unwillingly, and needs to beef up her security, or, have it beefed up by the British government if she is lucky.

I cannot see how she has infuence there though, so why target someone for religious reasons?

[Nono]

You decide.

Gosh, Dieval, are you inviting us to condemn these nuts? Whoa! I'll have to think about it ...

Then, when we've concluded they're a bunch of absolute dicks after all, you figure we'll all swing behind the Israeli offensive -- that it?

[mr_ponteporn]

is killing amy whinehouse such a bad thing?!

[Nono]

Killing anyone is a bad thing. At all events, leave her alone and she'll doubtless finish the job all by herself.

[mr_ponteporn]

well i was joking, but maybe if she released decent music she wouldn't be on the list!

[jose]

It would now appear that this entire non-story actually began with Glen Jenvey feeding an unknown quantity of information to the Sun 'news' paper. Glen Jenvey bills himself in this bio as a 'freelance terror investigator', is described in this article as a 'freelance intelligence agent', and is described in his Wikipedia entry (that he regularly edits himself) as a former spy who now "uses the internet to infiltrate terrorist organisations."Though the Sun suggests otherwise, the only forum contributor pushing for anything other than a polite letter-writing campaign (details here) is posting under the name 'abuislam'.... and I'm looking at evidence right now that strongly indicates that Glen Jenvey and 'abislam' are one and the same person.

In other words, he has created the very 'militant' content that the Sun has based their story on.

Bloggerheads (UK) - Glen Jenvey has some explaining to do

[Diogenes]

and is described in his Wikipedia entry (that he regularly edits himself)

Even though Wikipedia gets linked to a lot...this is just another reason why I take Wikipedia with more than a grain of salt...

as for Amy Winehouse...never heard of her.

[Evangelina]

Excuse me, I happen to think she released GREAT music. What a person does in her own free time is certainly none of you're business. She is a human being and it is insensitive and cruel to joke about death like that.

In any case, I don't think we should take this too seriously.

[Maryjane]

Killing anyone is a bad thing. At all events, leave her alone and she'll doubtless finish the job all by herself.

Pretty much the same thought I had. She seems hell bent on self destruction.

[Evangelina]

there's nothing wrong with living your life the way you want to, no one has the right to judge unless they've lived the same life.

[Nono]

Fair enough -- and here we're way off the intended topic, I'm sure -- but someone like A. Winehouse has placed her private life squarely in the public domain. It's doubtless a deliberate strategy to boost her career in our voyeuristic age.

So it ain't just a matter of liberal attitude but of also of business plan.

Sickening, eh?