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Re: Inside the surreal world of the Islamic State s propaganda machine

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 21 Nov 15 8:39 PM | 111 view(s)
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Hi clo,

They are keen on and evidently expert at marketing.

But I wouldn't necessarily call it propaganda. They are selling a sort of brutal reality that resonates with young Moslems.

The message is this: we are creating an Islamic caliphate that takes seriously the text of the Koran in the context of the prophet's sojourn in Medina. Medina was his period of resistance and warfare.

The message sells.

I worry that we are determined to avoid looking the reality in the face and so we respond as if this will all just blow away once people see the truth. This really is a form of spectrum Islam that is appealing to young warriors that are easily led to outrage and a sense of pious duty. Sometimes also it is a response to alienation for young Moslems in their homeland.

We have to persuade them to reinterpret what they are seeing and to whom they owe their loyalty. And to retake control of the communication medium.


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Inside the surreal world of the Islamic State’s propaganda machine
By: clo in ALEA
Sat, 21 Nov 15 5:21 PM 		Msg. 17657 of 54959

Inside the surreal world of the Islamic State’s propaganda machine

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Abu Hajer, who is now in prison in Morocco, is among more than a dozen Islamic State defectors or members in several countries who provided detailed accounts to The Washington Post of their involvement in, or exposure to, the most potent propaganda machine ever assembled by a terrorist group.

What they described resembles a medieval reality show. Camera crews fan out across the caliphate every day, their ubiquitous presence distorting the events they purportedly document. Battle scenes and public beheadings are so scripted and staged that fighters and executioners often perform multiple takes and read their lines from cue cards.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-the-islamic-states-propaganda-machine/2015/11/20/051e997a-8ce6-11e5-acff-673ae92ddd2b_story.html

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