SINCE last month’s attacks in Paris, Islamic State has kept up a transcontinental drumbeat of violence. Its claimed recent atrocities include suicide-bombings in central Tunis and Baghdad, mass-murder in suburban California and the assassination of the governor of the Yemeni city of Aden (see article).
The group’s horribly imaginative propaganda machine magnifies the menace. A recent IS video from Syria shows children armed with pistols playing “hide and seek”, hunting bound captives in a ruined castle before killing them. Another, novel form of murder features in the latest production from Yemen: prisoners in orange jumpsuits are loaded aboard a skiff and pushed offshore, only to be sunk by a barrage of rockets. IS technicians, meanwhile, have released a rebranded version of the group’s smartphone app, allowing instant download of such videos. Its musical department has just issued a catchy nasheed, or jihadist chant, entitled “I Am a Mujahid”—in Mandarin...Continue reading
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