Speaking at the Third International Forum of Journalists From Muslim Countries Against Extremism, President of Geostrategic Media Center Shehab Al Makahleh said it was important to fight the ideology of terrorism not just terrorists on the battlefield.
Following the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden said 'the war on our enemies has just started' and 75 percent of the war is conducted in the media.
It means that in order to defeat terrorism we must combat its ideology and sympathetic posts in social media. We can kill terrorists but we can't kill the concepts that capture the minds of their followers. That's why we need to fight terrorist in the media.
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