Online Jihad 3.0: Social Media Is Weapon Of Choice For Isis

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Their barbarity is like they are back in the 7th century, but they don't mind using modern technology to help their cause.

Online jihad 3.0: Social media is weapon of choice for ISIS


Extremists are adept at using the media to recruit, and promote their beliefs


PUBLISHED ON SEP 15, 2014 2:43 PM


The ISIS may be in the headlines for its brutality on the war front, but Western intelligence services are also worried about the group’s ability to use the media. These images, among countless the group has posted on social media, are aimed at one thing: to project an image of unstoppable, implacable power. -- PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

  • BAGHDAD - The world is riveted by the extremists who have seized large parts of Syria and Iraq with their military prowess and unrestrained brutality.

But Western intelligence services are also worried about their extraordinary command of seemingly less lethal weapons: cutting-edge videos, videos shot from drones and multilingual Twitter messages.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is using every contemporary mode of messaging to recruit fighters, intimidate enemies and promote its claim to have established a caliphate, a unified Muslim state run according to a strict interpretation of Islamic law.

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