(Deutsche Welle) Husam El Gomati scrolls through his phone and points at a long post in Arabic. “Mohammad Ahmad Ali, the most typical name, with some funny picture,” he notes. Scrolling through the post, El Gomati confirms what he expected: “Yeah, you’re going to find that he’s also liking the Ukrainian-Russian war and commenting a lot about it … like so many profiles, countless profiles.”
He pulls up a photo on another account, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin kissing a Quran at an event where the Russian leader also criticized countries he said do not protect Islam’s holy book, meaning, of course, Sweden. “[This profile] says the picture shows everything: ‘This is why we Muslims are with Moscow,'” El Gomati translates. “This kind of message has an echo, so it is effective and it is dangerous and we need to make a stop on this.”
