#ReturnOfTheJihadi? How social media users are lampooning ISIS with tongue-in-cheek virals

[Sally]

Since ISIS is so busy using the Internet, maybe they will catch this.

#ReturnOfTheJihadi? How social media users are lampooning ISIS with tongue-in-cheek virals

• Campaigns poking fun at Islamic State have appeared on social media
• Tongue-in-cheek hashtag #AskIslamicState trended on Twitter last week
• Earlier this month, users also tweeted spoof film titles under #ISISmovies
• Some say it is a way of dealing with offensive being carried out by terrorists
• Jihadist group has widely used social media to spread its propaganda

By STEPH COCKROFT FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 15:28 EST, 30 August 2014 | UPDATED: 06:38 EST, 31 August 2014

They have been using Facebook and Twitter to devastating effect - even hijacking people's innocent tweets to spread their message of propaganda.

And now social media users are giving ISIS a taste of its own medicine - by mounting a series of campaigns poking fun at the group.

In recent weeks, a wave of tongue-in-cheek virals ridiculing the terrorist organisation have been sweeping across the internet.

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Lee Hurst began the hashtag #AskIslamicState, which thousands of Twitter users had soon employed to poke fun at ISIS



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[aris2chat]

some of the satire and cartoons are great.