7 Things I Learned Reading Every Issue Of Islamic State's Magazine

[Laurent de Lyon]

7 Things I Learned Reading Every Issue Of ISIS's Magazine
By Robert Evans November 19, 2015 392,177 Views Viral

Sun Tzu, generally considered a reliable source on Good War Ideas, said something along the lines of, "You've got to know your enemy in order to beat him, because some dudes hate being kicked in the junk and others seem to enjoy it." The difficulty we've had defeating ISIS suggests that, maybe, we don't really understand who and what the fuck they are. Everything we hear is filtered through politicians and pundits, each with their own agenda ("You know what ISIS is afraid of? Me, Donald Goddamned Trump!"). Fortunately, it turns out that finding out what ISIS wants is like finding out what a vegan eats: They'll tell you. Which is to say that ISIS has a magazine.

No, really. It's an actual glossy, full-color magazine called Dabiq, complete with feature articles and photo spreads. So, in the interest of understanding just what makes these violent lunatics tick, I read through 700-plus pages of this oddly well-put-together propaganda and learned ...
#7. The Islamic State's Official Publication Is Pretty Slick

Maybe it's not surprising that the Islamic State has a regular periodical: Every crazy group of violent assholes in the world has some sort of leaflet or zine they publish. But Dabiq, the ISIS equivalent of Time mixed with People and a Chick tract, is something very different.



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I read every single issue.

That's a pretty darn competent (if simple) Photoshop of the Vatican flying an ISIS flag. Every issue runs 60 to 80 pages, all of them in color and all of them laid out with clear skill and experience in graphic design. A lot of it's what you'd expect, like scripture-dense articles quoting the angriest verses of various holy books to make an insane point:



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But it also features fawning People Magazine-like spreads of "celebrities," a word which, for the Islamic State, means dead suicide bombers and insurgents.



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Note the American rifle in his hands. That'll come up later.

Most articles start with a solid two or three paragraphs of "all this happened only by God's will," "praise Allah for granting us victory," etc. ... but there's also a regular series of columns by a British journalist, John Cantlie [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cantlie ], imprisoned by the Islamic State since 2012. They're ... weird reads, to say the least. Cantlie's clearly been edited in places, but a lot of the frustration and anger he spews toward British and American foreign policy at least seems genuine. Who knows, though?



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Cantlie regularly praises the intelligence of the Islamic State's leadership, but he also regularly calls them terrorists and refers to their horrific actions without being edited. Likewise, ISIS is only too happy to post the angry speeches of American politicians for their readers to study. "In The Words Of The Enemy" is a regular feature:



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Which narrowly beat out "LOL, U MAD?"

Over the course of reading through 700-ish pages of ISIS propaganda, I learned a few things about their vocabulary: "Crusader" is the title for every Western soldier, civilian, and politician, regardless of party or nation. Obama and John McCain are both "Crusaders." Another big word is "Hijrah," which basically means "packing up your shit and moving to join the Islamic State." Every issue includes multiple reminders that ISIS considers Hijrah a duty for all non-apostate Muslims.



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Wait ... look at the row of pictures on the left, third one down. Is that a fucking dead guy in their otherwise idyllic ad trying to convince people to join them? Yeah, as it turns out ...
#6. They Are Very Honest About Some Things

Most propaganda endeavors to make one's enemies appear as ugly and brutal as possible while portraying one's own side as shining and blameless. The Islamic State does not do this. For one thing, their fawning ads about various jihadis don't show only happy pictures ... they almost always include a picture of the man's corpse.



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Basically every story ends this way.

ISIS also doesn't shy away from showing off their own nightmarish brutality: On top of being OK with the "terrorist" label, there are many, many pictures in the magazine of captives they've beheaded, mass graves filled with massacred civilians, and tons of explosion porn. This stark honesty about the physical realities of the war they are waging surprised me for a while. Eventually, after dozens of articles, I started to understand: Every story of some terrorist attack or execution started with "thanks be to Allah for this" or some comment about how the tragedy was part of the "perfect will" of Allah. It's the same thing as the Westboro Baptist Church praising hurricanes and IEDs because, if God is all-powerful, then even awful and ugly things are God's will and, thus, to be celebrated. That's why every picture of jihadis at the site of some battle or terrorist attack has them pointing up at the sky:



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"Uh, no thanks." -God

The warriors of ISIS are proud to be terrorists and proud to be brutal. And learning this has made the Internet crusade to convince people to call them "Daesh" seem extra dumb.



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Daesh is an acronym for the original name ISIS fought under before declaring their "caliphate" (a formal religious-led Islamic state) and, so the argument goes, they just hate it when you call them that. But from what I can tell, ISIS doesn't seem to care much about that themselves. On Page 38 of Issue 4, they note that some Westerners call them Daesh matter-of-factly, without seeming to care much about it either way. It's never brought up again and barely comes off as an annoyance within the context of the article.

"They even imitated the nusayriyyah and secularist opposition by labelling the Islamic State as 'Daesh' and 'Tandhim ad-Dawlah,' in a manner precisely mimicking the satellite channels and palace scholars of Al Salul and Qat ..."

Attention Internet: People who celebrate pictures of civilians they've killed as well as pictures of their own friend's murdered corpses don't give a shit what you call them. I've heard it said that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom-fighter. But the folks at ISIS don't consider "freedom" a good thing (they refer to themselves as "slaves of Allah" on virtually every page), and they are happy calling themselves "Soldiers of Terror" ...



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Reminder: They put this image and title together.

At the same time, it's inaccurate to picture them as slavering bands of psychotic crazies, because ...
#5. They Are Unbelievably Media-Savvy

The PR wing of ISIS, the Al-Hayat Media Center, understands social media at least as well as their counterparts in the U.S. Army. Part of this comes down to the fact that they're well-informed: Their "In The Words Of The Enemy" column quotes American politicians extensively and shows a clear understanding of current events.

They've gotten very good at using Twitter to organize, as well as to spread their message:



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Except for the whole "#HASHTAG" thing.

Members of ISIS use Twitter to recruit soldiers [ http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/03/world ... esterners/ ], as well as wives [ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/world ... rican.html ]; they target young and vulnerable kids in a similar manner as sexual predators. (Likely because many of them are sexual predators.) ISIS's media team also puts together a series of slick videos all aimed at convincing young people to undertake Hijrah and journey to the Islamic State. The most confusing part of reading Dabiq is seeing all this tech savvy on display with straight-up medieval barbarism. Take this ad for a video that features a man's execution ... complete with instructions for how to play it on VLC.



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Poor VLC. You never wanted this.

Note how that video's in a shitload of languages? So is Dabiq, the magazine itself, and the English in it is extremely good. ISIS is operating a multilingual recruitment campaign that has so far succeeded in winning them at least 25,000 foreign fighters [ http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/29/polit ... ce-report/ ] and probably many more. Dabiq regularly prints advice for would-be recruits trying to make their way to the caliphate:

"So do not say to yourself, 'I will never succeed in my Hijrah.' Most of those who have tried, have successfully reached the Khilafah. Amongst them are those who travelled by land, sometimes on foot, from country to country, crossing border after border, and Allah brought them safely to the Khilafah."



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"Shirk" is probably their favorite word. It shows up in every single issue, often dozens of times.

They also regularly urge "true" Muslims who aren't able to physically join the Islamic State to go out and murder a "crusader" near them. Sometimes this call to action works, as with the two men [ http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/04/us/ga ... -shooting/ ] who attempted to shoot up that Draw Mohammed event (they received a full spread in Dabiq, despite failing to hurt anyone). When these calls end in horrific bloodshed, like last week's attack in Paris, many people's natural instinct is to say, "IF THE FUCKERS WANT TO DIE LET'S GO OVER THERE AND KILL 'EM!" But Dabiq makes it incredibly clear that ...
#4. Violent Reprisals Are Exactly What They Want

Every issue of Dabiq begins with the same quote: "The spark has been lit here in Iraq, and its heat will continue to intensify -- by Allah's permission -- until it burns the crusader armies in Dabiq." And here's where the magazine gets its name.



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Dabiq is an area in Northern Syria where, according to prophecy, Allah will do the whole "pillar of salt" thing on the armies of the West. For that to happen, we need to actually put our armies in Dabiq first. One thing reading 11 issues of Dabiq makes very clear is that ISIS considers a future U.S.-led invasion to be inevitable. They view the regional powers around them as destined to fall and, when that happens, in rides Uncle Sam and out pops the apocalypse.

Within the context of ISIS propaganda, being killed by a hellfire rocket isn't a bad thing. And for the thousands and thousands of fighters who willingly flock to their banner, it's the only expected outcome of that choice. The fanatics who signed up to fight are eager to die. Meanwhile, the civilians stuck where the Islamic State operates have to live through this nightmare, described by imprisoned columnist John Cantlie (and whoever is editing him):



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Same guy from earlier.

"There was a heavy airstrike some time ago in the dead of night and I promise that you don't sit there thinking, 'Hurray, it's the United States Air Force.' As the doors shake on their hinges and the walls bulge momentarily inward from the shockwaves, you become incandescent with fury. For 20 minutes afterwards there are the sounds of babies crying in fear, mothers trying to soothe their children, and sirens as casualties are taken to hospital. It's a side to 'precision' bombing that you never see back in the West."

But while ISIS fighters consider a U.S. invasion fulfillment of prophecy and their own deaths a given, something does worry their top brass ...

#3. Here's What Scares ISIS

Obviously, Dabiq is propaganda. But you can learn a lot about what scares a given regime by reading its propaganda, and ISIS is no exception. For example: ISIS is having financial trouble right now [ http://fortune.com/2015/09/27/isis-money-problem/ ]. Roughly half of their income last year was from robbing Iraqi banks (a one-time source of cash). ISIS is currently spending around half of their revenue just paying their soldiers. One big cause for this economic collapse is that taxpayers are fleeing ISIS-held territory, because duh.



http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/605 ... -caliphate

What exactly did you think all those refugees are refugeeing from?

Earlier this year, 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi's body washed up on shore after his boat from Egypt sank. ISIS reprinted the image in Dabiq, along with a message warning their residents that THIS is what would happen if they tried to leave. ISIS knows most people who enter Islamic State territory wind up wanting to get the fuck out.

There was more clear evidence of this in the third issue of Dabiq, which concluded an article full of advice for people looking to join the Islamic State with these warnings:

"Keep in mind that the Khilafah is a state whose inhabitants and soldiers are human beings ... not infallible angels. You may see things that need improvement. ... You may find mistakes that need fixing. You may find some of your brothers with traits that need mending."

Come on, guys! Don't be so hard on yourselves.

Another major issue vexing ISIS is the difficulty of getting enough qualified specialists (doctors, mechanics, urban planners) to run their "state." At least three of their articles issued pleading calls for physicians and other experts to please leave their comfortable lives behind for the explosion-filled cities occupied by the Islamic State group. At one point they ran a whole multi-page article about "Healthcare In The Islamic State," complete with professional photos of their pristine facilities:



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"Filled with the finest equipment blood money can buy."

But while the article functions as propaganda for how great ISIS is at being a modern state, the last paragraph of that article reveals some desperation:

"This should be received as a wake-up call for the many Muslim students. ... The Islamic State offers everything that you need to live and work here, so what are you waiting for?"
#2. They Consider The U.S. A Reliable Source Of Weapons

One thing ISIS isn't short on is weaponry. Another word that pops up over and over again is "ghanimah," an early Islamic term [ http://www.britannica.com/topic/ghanimah ] for "war booty." The pages of Dabiq are regularly filled with pictures of tanks and artillery pieces taken as ghanimah, and the act of pilfering enemy weapons is so common that you'll frequently see pictures like this:



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Told you we'd be coming back to this.

Yeah, one guess as to where that rifle came from. Not long ago ISIS captured some 2,300 humvees we left in the care of the Iraqi military. You can actually browse this website [ http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarm ... f-isis.asp ] for a comprehensive list of all the heavy hardware ISIS has and which countries it came from: The U.S. and Russia dominate the list.



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Oh, great, a giant cannon. That's exactly what they needed.

Some of this weaponry was left with the Iraqi Army ... but a bunch of it comes from American efforts to arm "friendly" militant groups in Syria. Unfortunately, it's often not easy to discern which groups are friendly to which side, let alone the motivation behind the different groups' actions. In fact ...
#1. We Don't Really Understand How ISIS Sees The World

My main takeaway from 700-odd pages of ISIS propaganda is how fucking little reading the news and listening to American politicians had educated me about what ISIS really is, and what it wants. For example, did you know ISIS is fighting a war on drugs too? Yep: And they celebrate seized caches of drugs as happily as they celebrate military victories:



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Because now they're the ones that get to sell it. https://www.rt.com/news/238369-isis-dru ... afficking/

And did you know that ISIS and Ron Paul actually have some economic attitudes in common? The Islamic State is all about the gold standard ...



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The issue after announcing that, they actually made poor John Cantlie write a column about gold that wouldn't have looked out of place anywhere on the Internet Libertarians are known to tread ("Economic meltdown is approaching fast, and the world needs a stable currency it can rely on").



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But the thing that most surprised me was how little I understood their worldview. I didn't realize they hated Iran until I learned the word "rafidah," which kept showing up before "ayatollah." It means "rejector," as in they reject the proper interpretation of scripture. ISIS considers the Iranian regime heretics and lumps them in with the U.S. and Russia as enemies. They even insinuate that former Iranian President Ahmadinejad is a puppet of Israel.



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You won't believe the Rule 34 they made of this for the ISIS DeviantArt account.

Also fighting against ISIS, with Iran's backing [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -isis.html ]? The Taliban. Yes, ISIS hates the Taliban too.



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The caption at the bottom says, "The Taliban walk hand-in-hand with the tawaghit." That last word is an old Islamic term for, essentially, someone who becomes a false idol. A person who becomes "worshiped" in a manner fit only for Allah. Other tawaghit include Al-Qaida. That's right -- ISIS hates the guys who did 9/11. Check this out:



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There is a caption on that photo sarcastically calling a British drone a "symbol of hope" for Al-Qaida, who recently pissed off ISIS by calling them too extreme [ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... r-al-qaida ]. In fact, General David Petraeus recently suggested the U.S. use Al-Qaida fighters [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... -isis.html ] against ISIS. If all this seems surprising or counterintuitive to you, that's a sign of how little anyone including the U.S. government understands ISIS. There's a reason every prediction we've made about them has fallen flat. Up until very recently, the official word was that ISIS had just 35,000 active fighters. But now it looks like the CIA got that one wrong, and ISIS may have as many as 200,000 jihadis [ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 63418.html ] in their ranks.

But the most surprising thing I learned about ISIS during my reading is that the primary target of their hatred is not the United States. It's not France or Russia, either. The one "enemy" they devote more time to ranting against than anyone else is the "apostate Muslim." The vast majority of people ISIS kills are Muslims [ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 37326.html ]. They use one slur in particular -- "Safawi" -- to refer to Shiite Muslims. That word is a play on the name of the Safavid dynasty, which ruled Persia in the 15-17th centuries and which you almost certainly haven't heard of even though soldiers for the most notoriously evil organization in the world use it as a curse every day.

Jeez, it's almost like the scope of the problem ISIS represents is far too complex to boil down to a Facebook status. Go figure.

Source : http://www.cracked.com/blog/isis-wants- ... -magazine/

[Laurent de Lyon]

The Islamic State's (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine
All of the issues of the Islamic State's glossy propaganda magazine 'Dabiq,' named after a key site in Muslim apocalypse mythology can be found here.

Wed, September 10, 2014



Covers from the first two issues of Dabiq.

The Islamic State (ISIS) regularly puts out a glossy propaganda magazine aimed at recruiting jihadists from the West. It is sophisticated, slick, beautifully produced and printed in several languages including English.

See all the magazine's issues below.



'Dabiq' as it is called, bills itself as "a periodical magazine focusing on the issues of tawhid (unity), manhaj (truth-seeking), hijrah (migration), jihad (holy war) and jama'ah (community). It will also contain photo reports, current events, and informative articles on matters relating to the Islamic State."

It portrays the Islamic State as they see themselves [ http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/ ... h-magazine ]: boasting of their victories and painting a romantic image of the restoration of an Islamic golden age and the heralding of a "glorious" new caliphate based on holy war.

Dabiq is a place in Syria that is supposed to be the location for one of the final battles according to certain Muslim myths about a final apocalypse [ http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/ ... e-end-days ]. Choosing such a name for the magazine highlights the caliphate's goals.

Issues of Dabiq released so far:

The first issue of Dabiq, "The Return of Khilafah" is focused on the declaration of the caliphate and what that means. Some of the ideology behind the group is explained in an attempt to persuade more Muslims to join. It also explains the name of the magazine, and boasts of ISIS' victories. It also talks about efforts made to build support among local tribal groups, reporting their pledges of loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghadi, the self-appointed caliph of the Islamic State.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 1 : http://media.clarionproject.org/files/0 ... ilafah.pdf

The second issue of Dabiq, "The Flood," uses the metaphor of the story of Noah to put across a stark message: you are either with the Islamic State, or against them and doomed to be destroyed. It calls on all Muslims around the world to pledge loyalty to the Islamic State and to move there immediately. There is also a section on the attempts to resolve the disputes between the Islamic State and other Jihadi factions such as Jabhat al-Nusra by means of mubahalah, an Islamic religious arbitration process.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 2 : http://media.clarionproject.org/files/0 ... -flood.pdf

The third issue of Dabiq, "The Call to Hijrah" focuses on the jihadists' call to Muslims worldwide to move to Iraq and Syria to join the caliphate as soon as possible. Hijrah is Arabic for 'migration' and refers to the journey of the founder of Islam, Mohammed, and his companions from Mecca to Medinah in 622 C.E. The comparison is very deliberate and intended to invoke religious nostalgia.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 3 : http://media.clarionproject.org/files/0 ... hijrah.pdf

The fourth issue of Dabiq is entitled "The Failed Crusade." It focuses on the attempts by the U.S.-led coalition to counter the Islamic State and mocks what the Islamists regard as a campaign doomed to fail. They express their certainty saying "This religion is the one promised with victory." The picture on the cover is of the iconic St. Peter's Square in Rome, displaying the group's ambitions of world conquest.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 4 : http://media.clarionproject.org/files/i ... rusade.pdf

The fifth issue of Dabiq is named after the Islamic State slogan, 'Remaining and Expanding.' In this theme, it announces the expansion of the Islamic State into Sinai, Libya, Yemen, Algeria and the Arabian Peninsula after accepting pledges of loyalty (bay'ah) from terrorist groups there. It also announces the minting of gold dinars and silver dirhams in order to separate it from the international fiat currency markets and build the economy of the Islamist state.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 5 : http://media.clarionproject.org/files/i ... anding.pdf

The sixth issue of Dabiq is called "Al-Qa'idah of Waziristan: A Testimony From Within." This issue begins by taking responsibility for the terrorist attack in Sydney that killed two at St. Martin's place and again calls on the Islamic State's supporters worldwide to carry out killings of Westerners whenever and wherever they can without revealing their intentions by discussing them. Most of the rest of the magazine focuses on internal jihadi disputes, criticizing the Islamic State's detractors from within the jihadi movement.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 6 : http://media.clarionproject.org/files/i ... ristan.pdf

The seventh issue of the Islamic State's Dabiq magazine is entitled From Hypocrisy to Apostasy. It begins with a declaration of war against Japan. Dabiq then boasts about the murder of the Jordanian pilot by immolation, before going on to give advice for would be leaders within the Islamic State. It reiterates their commitments to war, arguing that “Islam is the religion of the sword.” It then proceeds to tout its successes in Egypt and Libya. It reiterates its division of the world into two camps and includes interviews with jihadists and hostage John Cantlie.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 7 : http://media.clarionproject.org/files/i ... ostasy.pdf

The eighth issue of the Islamic State's Dabiq magazine is called Shari'ah Alone Will Rule Africa. Like other issues of Dabiq it focuses on Islamic State successes, leaving out the group's defeats in strategic areas of Iraq and Syria to focus on Africa. It emphasizes the pledge of allegiance from Boko Haram in Nigeria and terror attacks in Libya and Tunisia. It tries to portray an organization with a future by glorifying its child soldier program and undermining the legitimacy of Al-Qaeda affiliat Jabhat al-Nusra by attacking its allies as 'nationalists' and therefore un-Islamic.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 8 : http://media.clarionproject.org/files/i ... africa.pdf

The ninth issue of the Islamic State's Dabiq magazine is called They Plot and Allah Plots, referring to the central feature of the magazine which argues that Islamic State supporters should not fear any plans to defeat them since Allah controls the world. The issue focuses on legitimacy - both attacking that of its enemies in Syria and the surrounding Arab nations, and in building up its own, with pieces on the importance of jihad.

Most shockingly this issue ran a lengthy segments admitting to and justifying sex slavery. It threatens to sell US first Lady Michelle Obama into sexual slavery for a third of a dinar.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq Issue 9 : http://media.clarionproject.org/files/i ... lavery.pdf

The tenth issue of the Islamic State's Dabiq magazine is called The Laws of All or the Laws of Men. It opened by praising the deadly simultaneous terror attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France [ http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/ ... ys-attacks ] and the massive casualties caused. It calls on children to obey Allah (ie. ISIS) before their parents and wives to leave their husbands who fight ISIS. It also boasts of expansions in the Caucasus and recruitment in Afghanistan.

Since it is the Ramadan issue, it discusses the historical victories of some of the early Muslim armies during Ramadan as well as expounding on the holiness of the month.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq Issue 10 : http://www.clarionproject.org/docs/Issu ... %20Men.pdf

The eleventh issue of the Islamic State’s propaganda magazine is called From the Battle of Al-Ahzab to the War of Coalitions. Al-Ahzab refers to a battle in the Quran between a coalition of Meccan tribes and the nascent forces of Islam. ISIS attacks al-Qaeda and castigates the Taliban for concealing the death of Mullah Omar. ISIS also accuses the Shiite messiah (Mahdi) of being the dajjal (devil) in league with the Jews. More is directed at women, who are urged to have children and care for their jihadi husbands.

ISIS also tout their establishment of gold dinars as currency and boast of having captured a Norwegian and a Chinese hostage, who are offered up for ransom in full page adverts.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq Issue 11 : http://www.clarionproject.org/docs/Issu ... itions.pdf

The twelth issue of the Islamic State’s propaganda magazine is entitled Just Terror. It boasts about the terrorist attacks in Paris [ http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/ ... -will-have ], the double-bombing in Beirut [ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/n ... 20-lebanon ], and the downing of a Russian plane in Sinai [ http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/ ... harge-isis ] among other attacks. It spins terrorism in the language of a fairy story, referring to terrorists as “knights,” acting to defend Muslim honor. This issue is also striking for the high number of Islamic State propaganda videos it advertizes, a sign of increased output in that area. Other pieces continue long-running themes, including attacking the legitimacy of other Islamist factions, recounting its military victories and attacking women who oppose polygyny as opposing Islam.



Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) Magazine: Dabiq - Issue 12 : http://www.clarionproject.org/docs/isla ... terror.pdf

In order to combat extremist groups, it is important to understand their underlying ideology.
[...]Therefore, Clarion Project will continue to post the issues of Dabiq here as they are released.

Source : http://www.clarionproject.org/news/isla ... zine-dabiq

[Laurent de Lyon]

Islamic State Hostage UK Journalist John Cantlie’s “Lend Me Your Ears” Video Series & DABIQ Articles
In Archive, Cantlie, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Syria, Terrorism on September 18, 2014 at 10:40 AM



09/18/2014

The Islamic State group released a video Thursday of British freelance journalist John Cantlie, in which he says he is being held captive after being kidnapped by the group after arriving in Syria in November 2012. Cantlie, wearing an orange jumpsuit, speaks to the camera in the style of a news report and promises to reveal in a series of programs the “truth” about the jihadist group that has seized parts of Iraq and Syria.

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Speaking in English with Arabic subtitles, Cantlie says in the 3:21-minute video titled “Lend Me Your Ears,” that he plans to reveal “the truth behind the systems and motivation of the Islamic State.”

“Over the next few programmes, I am going to show you the truth as the Western media tries to drag the public back to the abyss of another war with the Islamic State,” he says.

“Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking: ‘He’s only doing this because he’s a prisoner he’s got a gun at his head and he’s being forced to do this,’ right?

“Well, it’s true. I am a prisoner, that I cannot deny. But seeing as I’ve been abandoned by my government and my fate now lies in the hands of the Islamic State I have nothing to lose.

“Over the next few programmes I’m going to show you the truth as the Western media tries to drag the public back to the abyss of another war with the Islamic State,” he continues.

“After two disastrous and hugely unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq why is it that our governments appear so keen to get involved in yet another unwinnable conflict?”

“I’m going to show you the truth behind the systems and motivation of the Islamic State, and how the Western media – the very organisation I used to work for – can twist and manipulate that truth for the public back home. There are two sides to every story – think you’re getting the whole picture?”

“And I’ll show you the truth behind what happened when many European citizens were imprisoned and later released by the Islamic State, and how the British and American governments thought they could do it differently to every other European country.

“They negotiated with the Islamic State and got their people home, while the British and Americans were left behind.”

“It’s very alarming to see where this is all headed and it looks like history repeating itself, yet again. There is time to change this seemingly inevitable sequence of events, but only if you, the public act now.

“Join me for the next few programs, and I think you may be surprised at what you learn,” he concludes.

Cantlie, believed to be 43, is a former reporter for The Sunday Times, The Sun and The Sunday Telegraph.

It was not clear when the video was shot, but in it Cantlie referred to recent events including IS taking control of large parts of Iraq in June.

Cantlie’s whereabouts are currently unknown but it is likely he is being held in Syria where other hostages US journalists James Foley, Steven Sotloff and UK aid worker David Haines, were murdered in IS’s de-facto capital of Raqqa.

He was previously kidnapped in Syria in July 2012 with Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans by a group of 40 extremists and were reportedly discovered and set free nine days later by men they took to be part of the rebel Free Syrian Army.

UPDATE 09/22/2014



As the U.S. and allies began airstrikes on the Islamic State in Syria on Monday night, the Islamic State released a new installment in its “lecture series” delivered by British hostage, John Cantlie. The 5-minute, 55-second video is the second in less than a week.

https://videos.files.wordpress.com/ELJI ... p1_dvd.mp4

“In this program, we’ll see how the Western governments are hastily marching towards all-out war in Iraq and Syria without paying any heed to the lessons of the recent past. And how they’re using the persuasive approach, to lure the public back into the conflict,” Cantlie says.

“So, let’s get straight to the point with a quote from former CIA chief turned vigorous anti-intervention campaigner Michael Scheuer. President Obama does not have the slightest intention of defeating the Islamic State, which would require the aerial slaughter, and boots on the ground demolishing of the Mujahideen.”

“The Obama administration is so perplexed as they march back into Iraq, but they’re tap-dancing around the issue in a we’re getting involved but we’re not getting involved kind of way. You know, airstrikes only, no troops on the ground, limited operation time, no mission creep. All those pre-combat agreements that tend to get forgotten after the first six months of nasty tough stuff.”

“The pre-9/11 Afghans are already back in control of large areas of Afghanistan, while the full might of the American war-machine, couldn’t destroy the Islamic State in Iraq before. So, now the state is far stronger than ever it was, what is this latest ill-advised foray really supposed to achieve?”

“The entire reason as to why we’re at war with the Islamists, and what they’re fighting for, is brilliantly avoided by all.”

Cantlie goes on to quote Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey governor, who he says acknowledged that intelligence officials failed to anticipate the emergence of the Islamic State.

“Western governments,” Cantlie adds, “were caught napping by the sheer speed of the Islamic State’s growth.”

“Everyone now is getting involved. Denmark and France have sent airpower, Britain is arming the Kurds, Iran is sending troops, contractors are being sought in Iraq, and even Bashar al-Assad, until this earlier this year the most hated and villainized tyrant in the Arab world, is being approached for permission to enter Syria. Can the Islamic State be defeated without addressing that part of their organization that resides in Syria, asks General Martin Demspey. The answer is no.”

“It’s all quite a circus, airstrikes, the creation of last minute puppet governments, advisory teams on the ground wooing previous enemies to join in, and trans-border incursions into a country that’s been in a state of civil war for three years.”

“Not since Vietnam have we witnessed such a potential mess in the making.”

“Current estimates of 15,000 troops needed to fight the Islamic State are laughably low. The state has more Mujahideen than this, and this is not some undisciplined outfit with a few kalashnikovs.

Cantlie finished the video quoting Michael Scheuer again. “Think what you will of the Islamists and their brand of war making, but they have been in the field fighting since 1979, and their movement has never been larger, more popular, or as well armed as it is today.”

“Join me again for the next program.”

UPDATE 09/29/2014

A third video featuring British hostage John Cantlie was uploaded Monday night by the Islamic State. The five-minute, 34-second video is the third released this month by the terrorist group.

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The journalist delivers a scripted message responding to US President Barack Obama’s recent speech on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks outlining plans to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State.

“There were no big surprises” in Obama’s speech, Cantlie says, mocking the strategy of conducting airstrikes while relying on local forces for the ground offensive.

“It was all disappointingly predictable; America is good, the Islamic State is bad; and they will be defeated using aircraft and a motley collection of fighters on the ground. For their part the Islamic State say they welcome meeting Obama’s under-construction army.”

The video appears to have been filmed before last Friday, as there is no mention of the British decision to join the US-led campaign. Cantlie also makes no references to US-led coalition airstrikes on Syrian oilfields and IS checkpoints, over recent days.

At the end of the video Cantlie indicates there will be further messages.

According to a graphic posted by the Islamic State, there is still 5 more to come.



UPDATE 10/12/2014

Islamic State has released the fourth video in their propaganda news-style series “Lend Me Your Ears,” showing abducted British journalist John Cantlie delivering another message.

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In the 6 minute 53 second video posted online by the group’s Al Furqan media outlet on Sunday, Cantlie, who has been held prisoner for almost two years, speaks of the strength of IS and says the group is “dug in for the fight.”

“What that means is that anyone hoping for a nice neat surgical operation without getting their hands dirty is in for a horrible surprise once it gets underway,”

“One month ago Obama pressed the button on airstrikes. Now we have to wonder how long his policy of no boots on the ground has left to live. As for the Islamic State, they eagerly await to see those boots.”

Cantlie also talks about the gruesome/beheading/videos/released by IS:

“The killings are, rather unfortunately for us, exactly the sort of things our governments need to bolster public support. People don’t understand geopolitics, but a man having his head cut off, that’s worth making a noise about.

The public will respond in one of two ways. They’ll either demand an end to this cycle of bloodshed and say what are we doing back there let’s get out, or they’ll demand revenge and support more military action.

Our governments would already have known this, and it’s entirely possible we were left behind for exactly this purpose.

For the Islamic State it’s a win-win situation. If these executions force public outry or a policy change that is a huge victory, and if they only goad our governments into dropping more bombs and spending millions more dollars making our countries weaker in the process, then that is a victory too.”

Cantlie addresses British Prime Minister David Cameron directly on the beheadings. saying “Prime Minister, you’ve known about our situation for nearly two years. You chose not to enter negotiations with the Islamic State that might have got us out, and now you want to use these deaths to fan the flames of this war? If that is the case then I deeply resent it Prime Minister. Thanks a lot.”

The video follows the publishing of an article allegedly written by Cantlie in the fourth issue of Islamic State’s magazine Dabiq.

Titled “The Real Story Behind My Videos,” the article insists that Mr Cantlie produces the scripts for the videos and calls on the British Government to negotiate his release.

UPDATE 10/16/2014

Islamic State has released a fifth video of British journalist John Cantlie, warning that western governments and media are gearing up for “yet another unwinnable” third Gulf war, and that this is exactly what the group wants.

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“They say that people have short memories, but the ink has not even yet dried on the written orders to pull out of Afghanistan, and yet here we are gearing up for Gulf War III.” The Obama administration has adopted “exactly the same rhetoric used to rally support for the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.”

“At the first sniff of something they don’t like, the American war machine springs to life, whipped along by the western media, as usual.”

“It’s not to hard to see where this is headed. Once again the western media are drip-feeding the public until, what a surprise, we’re embroiled in a full-scale war.”

“So we’ve spent a few trillion dollars on failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the unwritten message, isn’t worth spending a few trillion more to avoid a specter of another 9/11? Of course this plays perfectly into the hands of the Mujahideen, who are very happy to sit back and watch the West bankrupt itself fighting them.”

“The rise of the Islamic State today gives Obama a chance to look tough in the media, just as mid-term elections approach. History repeatedly demonstrates that every leader of a country likes to have their own war – and this now is Obama’s.”

“Government’s need the media to gain public support, and the media needs the government to get access to stories. It’s a cunningly symbiotic relationship.”

UPDATE 10/25/2014

Islamic State has released the sixth “lecture series” video of British journalist John Cantlie, who is being held hostage by the group. In it Cantlie criticizes the UK and US approach to hostage negotiations, and reads emails reportedly exchanged between IS and the families of hostages, which criticize the US government’s handling of the situation.

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“Only the British and American prisoners were left behind, after months of negotiations saw 16 other citizens from 6 European countries go home.”

“The Europeans fell into line…their representatives having fulfilled the conditions for their release, but it was clear something was different for the British and Americans. While there was dialogue for everyone else, the British and Americans were stonewalled. It was completely silent, nothing.”

“I have a message here from one of the American prisoners on the 11th of June 2014. ‘I would secure your sister Dr. Aafia Siddiqui‘s release if I could. It sounds like you care about her freedom. You have surely seen the news, our government is a mess. They will not help.’ There’s another email here from the family of one of the American prisoners on the 17th of July 2014. ‘Our government is not being helpful. We have begged them so many times already. Everyone has buried their heads in the sand. We feel we are caught in the middle between you and the U.S. government, and we are being punished. We have reached out to our government, but they have been non-responsive for some time now. We don’t expect that we will get any help from our government at all, and we feel foolish for believing them.’ There’s a message from the family of one of the American prisoners on the 24th of July 2014. ‘We are contacting people every day. You have given us a huge mountain to climb, and we feel like a pawn in this political battle that we have been forced into. I’m taking everything you have said seriously, and am working as fast as I can. I need more time.’ Now the recurring element in these emails is that the U.S. government was simply doing absolutely nothing to help the families involved in this negotiation.”

“I don’t have much on the British, so I assume that there was even less discussion going on for them.”

“The Mujahideen told us our governments didn’t care about us, and we didn’t believe them…but it was all true. Our governments had chosen not to negotiate with the Islamic State through our families and friends. And while everyone else had fulfilled conditions for release, for us, there was no deal.”

“Join me in the next program, as we learn about a failed rescue that tried to get us out, and you’ll hear about how one soldier was worth 5 prisoners, and we were worth none.”



Inside ‘Ayn al-Islam: Islamic State Hostage John Cantlie Reports from the Ground in Kobane
In Archive, Cantlie, ISIS, Islamic State, Kobane, Syria, Terrorism on October 27, 2014 at 5:52 PM



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10/27/2014

In a new video published today, British journalist John Cantlie, who is being held hostage by the Islamic State after being kidnapped in Syria in 2012, appears to be reporting from the city of Kobane on the Syrian-Turkish border, which has been the stage of an ongoing battle between the militants and Kurdish forces.

The video, which features aerial views of the war-ravaged city filmed from a drone, is the latest featuring Cantlie, who said in his most recent “Lend Me Your Ears” video that the Islamic State treats its captives “well” and that US and UK governments had abandoned their citizens.

In the new five-minute video titled “Inside ‘Ayn al-Islam” (the name given by the Islamic State to Kobane) and mimicking the style of a traditional newscast, Cantlie claims to be standing in an area known as a Kurdish “safe zone, which is now controlled entirely by the Islamic State,” despite US strikes attempting to stop their advance.

Cantlie speaks in a seemingly relaxed tone, citing recent news reports and Western officials’ statements made as late as October 20.

“The Western media, and I can’t see any of their journalists here in the city of Kobane, have been saying recently that the Islamic State are on the retreat … Good old John Kerry doesn’t seem to think the mujahdeen are retreating. He called Kobane a ‘horrible example of the unwillingness of people to help those fighting the Islamic State,’ that’s a dig at Kurd-hating Turkish President Erdoğan.”

“From where I’m standing right now, I can see large swathes of the city, and I can even see the Turkish flag behind me, and all I’ve seen here in the city of Kobani is mujahideen. There are no YPG, PKK, or Peshmerga in sight. Just a large number of Islamic State mujahideen, and they are definitely not on the run,” Cantlie says. “Urban warfare is about as nasty and tough as it gets, and it’s something of a specialty of the mujahideen.”

Cantlie appears to be in good health in the video, but a recent New York Times investigation into the conditions in which he and other foreign hostages have been held revealed that the captives were frequently kept chained, starved, beaten, and tortured — including with water boarding, electric shocks and mock executions.

John Cantlie is one of at least three Western captives known to be in the hands of the same Islamic State militants who executed James Foley, Steven Sotloff, David Haines, and Alan Henning. They are also holding an unidentified female US aid worker and Peter Kassig, a former US Army Ranger turned aid worker, who they have threatened to execute next.

UPDATE 11/22/2014

Islamic State has released a new video featuring kidnapped photojournalist John Cantlie, who talks of “accepting his fate” as he criticizes a failed rescue attempt by US forces and Western unwillingness to negotiate.

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“In this program I will tell you about a failed raid to rescue us and how it feels to be left for dead by your own government,” Cantlie says.

“On July 4, Independence Day, the Americans did try to get us out of prison. Not by negotiation or prisoner exchange but by an incredibly complex, risky and expensive rescue attempt that failed,” he says, outlining the operation.

The rescue operation Cantlie speaks of allegedly “involved two dozen Delta Force commandos, several Black Hawk helicopters, gunships, Predator drones, F18 Hornet Jets and refuelling aircraft.”

“It took weeks of rehearsals and must have cost tens of millions to perform – but we weren’t there,” Cantlie continues, adding that all it took for Islamic State to avert the attack was to move all the prisoners to a different location days in advance.

“‘Missions like this are very risky because if they go wrong, you don’t know how it will effect hostages further up the road,’ said Hector Pocock, a Special Operations spokesman, you don’t say.

Meanwhile, James Foley’s mother Diane was being threatened by the U.S. National Security Council that she could face criminal charges if they paid her ransom.”

Cantlie criticizes the US and British refusal to negotiate with terrorists, unlike France’s “record for paying out ransom demands, stating that “since 2008, [it] has reportedly paid $58 million of ransom payments to different Islamic groups, nearly $10 million a year.”

“But America and Britain have to do it their way, often far more dangerous and costly than negotiating in the first place. They refused to negotiate for us. America mounted a botched rescue and then threatened a mother trying to save her son with funding terrorism charges if she raised a ransom.

The double-standards on display here are breathtaking. Why would you put all those lives in danger when you could have peacefully negotiated like everyone else. Why is a military option always the first option for our countries?

Now take the case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, held since 2009 by Afghans who harbored Al Qaeda back in 2001. They demanded five high-profile Guantanamo prisoners in exchange. The Pentagon wanted to keep them, they were the hardest of the hardcore according to John McCain. But Obama wanted the exchange, and five years after Bergdahl was taken he got it, on June 1st of this year, Bergdahl was released.

He was one man, we were six, and the Islamic State asked for Muslim prisoners in exchange for all of us. Yes Bergdahl was a soldier and three of us were British, but isn’t civilian life or six of them really not worth discussing? There was no more talk and we were left to our fate.

We are not big people, and we are not special, we’re not U.S. soldiers, but we are no more or less important than everyone else who went home. The difference being all the other countries had the patience to negotiate with the Islamic State through the families and friends of the prisoners, while ours leapt in with guns and helicopters, and this was the result.

James, Steven and David didn’t want their deaths to encourage an entire nation into war, and if it comes to it, please don’t let our governments pull the same stunt with us. Because if armed intervention ended the way it did in this situation, why would it be any different on a bigger scale in this region.

We were left to die, it’s the worst feeling in the world being left behind like that. We’ve been in the longest, paid our dues, watched everyone else go home, never stopped believing and then wham, have some of that, you’re not worth negotiating for. To be left behind so cynically by the country you thought you knew, is some kind of ultimate betrayal. You spend your whole life working, paying taxes, not getting into trouble with the police, well not for anything serious, paying your bills, and for what? The first time you need your government to do something for you, when it’s truly life or death, they turn their back.”

Speaking about British Prime Minister David Cameron, Cantlie says, “How can you outrageously claim the whole system is working on their behalf … when David’s body now lies in the Syrian desert. What kind of system is that? The PM went on to derive the European negotiators, who fulfilled the conditions for the release of their prisoners, as supporting terrorism. But what they did to get their people home, was nothing compared to what we’ve done by supporting corrupt outfits like the FSA [Free Syrian Army], who only sell the hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons they’ve been given, many of whom end up in the hands of the Islamic State itself.

It became clear to me that we’re just being used by our politicians. Obama and Cameron act all shocked and appalled each time one of us are killed, but they’ve known this was coming for months, months! They’ve known our six names, who was holding us, and the consequences of not negotiating for over a year. So for them to act all surprised and shocked each time one of us is executed is a massive lie to the public and our families.

Long ago I accepted that my fate will overwhelmingly likely be the same as my cellmates, and I’m angry about it … I’m angry at our governments for allowing the matter to get to this position, and then having done so using the deaths of my colleagues, for their own reasons through the media. I’m angry with our governments for not discussing this matter with our families, for not discussing the matter with the Islamic State, and for treating our life like some sort of gamble, like a roll of the dice, when everyone else went home.

I will continue to speak out against this military action and the deceitful arrogance of our governments for as long as the Mujahideen allow me to live.

Once again we are becoming embroiled in a war that has little to do with humanitarian issues or national security, but is all about oil, business, money, and the political gains of selfish individuals in parties.”

UPDATE 11/21/2014

A second column allegedly written by Cantlie was published in the latest edition of the Islamic State’s magazine Dabiq, titled “If I Were The US President Today…”:



Islamic State Hostage John Cantlie Reports “From Inside Mosul”
In Archive, Cantlie, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Terrorism on January 6, 2015 at 1:42 PM

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01/04/2015

John Cantlie, British photojournalist and captive of the Islamic State, has appeared in yet another propaganda video for the terrorist group released on Monday.

In the latest video, Cantlie tours the city of Mosul, Iraq, which is located more than 300 miles from Kobani, Syria, where the UK-native last appeared in a video in October. He drives through the city, walks through a market and visits a children’s hospital.

The video depicts the IS-controlled territory as a calm, seemingly normal place to live, despite reports of the group’s harsh brand of Islamic justice, which includes mass killings and torture.

Cantlie describes Mosul as “top of the world” and life as being “business as usual after years of oppression.” Sunni Muslims, he says, “can walk the streets without fear of Shia oppression.” In a local “souk” or market he claims, “it’s so normal, crazy and busy. This is not a city living under fear.”

Cantlie is also heard saying, “Here! Here! Over here! You’ve come to rescue me again? Do something! Useless! Absolutely useless!,” to what seems to be a western drone or aircraft in the sky. In a bid to show healthcare has not been hit, he is shown with babies in a hospital ward. He claims they are being treated for trauma after western bombs fell near their homes.

The video shows Cantlie getting out of a police car and riding a police motorcycle with what seems to be a policeman in the IS group’s trademark black clothing. In fact, he claims the police are ‘redundant’ because there is “very little crime being committed”.

The video ends with Cantlie standing in what he says is a media center with his last video in Kobane playing in a big screen behind him. He finishes by saying, “from Kobane to Mosul–shows how much territory the IS is holding”.

UPDATE 12/30/2014

A third column allegedly written by Cantlie was published in the latest edition of the Islamic State’s magazine Dabiq, titled “Meltdown”:

Inside Halab: Islamic State Hostage John Cantlie Reports from Aleppo
In Archive, Cantlie, ISIS, Islamic State, Syria on February 9, 2015 at 3:11 PM

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02/09/2015

British hostage John Cantlie has appeared in a new Islamic State propaganda video titled “Inside Halab (Aleppo)”. The 12-minute video was produced by IS’ foreign language division al-Hayat Media Center, and distributed via social media today.

In the video, the captive journalist walks through the rubble of heavily bombed Aleppo, showing how the city, despite having been “smashed to rubble” by US-led coalition bombings, as well as the Syrian army, still functions under IS and enjoys a “thriving economy.”

Cantlie then appears inside of a school run by IS. “One of the common accusations of the West is that under the Islamic State, education will suffer,” Cantlie says, “But here in Halab, these young men are learning Qur’an recital and languages and, with any luck, they will form the mujahideen for the next generation in this region.”

Cantlie talks about drone surveillance of the area by coalition forces and drone strikes against IS. Cantlie claims the jihadists are not affected by the bombings and often “enjoy a relaxing cup of tea,” continue to build new homes in Aleppo, and just “getting on with it.”

A recently bomb-attacked market is next on the list of places Cantlie visits. Through Cantlie, the IS alleges that U.S. drones identify targets and the Syrian regime launches airstrikes on them. “All this follows a drone which we saw five minutes ago, and then Assad’s air force comes in and drops bombs on the market,” Cantlie says. “Now, as far as I know, the Syrian Air Force does not have drones. That must have been an American drone. That was definitely an Assad bomb dropping here on the market. So what’s going on? Someone is working with someone around here to drop bombs.”

Next, seen sitting inside an Islamic State court, Cantlie talks about Shari’ah law. “It is one-thousand four-hundred years old, and it is the rule of God, the rule of Allah, and therefore it cannot be changed, unlike the laws of democratic countries which change to fit every circumstance or to fit every different week,” Cantlie says. “The rules of Shariah are remarkably simple, if you are convicted of robbery with the correct number of witnesses and such forth, you have your hand cut off. Sounds harsh, but you’re not going to commit the same crime again, and it will dissuade others from doing the same.”

“Like any other law court in the world, they’re playing TV in the background,” Cantlie says as he sits with others in the Sharia’ah court waiting room. “This being the Islamic State, they’re playing Islamic State videos. I must say, they’re a lot more entertaining than watching the news at six.”

Finally, Cantlie interviews 2 IS fighters, one of whom calls for more attacks in France. The interviewed French fighter indicated that he and colleagues learned about the Paris attacks only a few days before, which potentially dates that video segment as being recorded in early- to mid-January 2015. The fighter urges Muslims in France to carry out more lone-wolf attacks, and warning attacking nations of the West, “we have also come to strike you, and we are already there to attack you. Muslims in the West number in the millions, and they are capable of inflicting mass carnage. So I call on them to move forward and do what is obligatory on them in support of their religion.”

Cantlie indicated that this is the last video in the “From Inside…” series, in which he gave tours of Kobane and Mosul in previous episodes. Cantlie also appears in an earlier series titled “Lend Me Your Ears,” and has written articles for IS’ DABIQ magazine. The Islamic State has held Cantlie captive for more than two years now.

UPDATE 02/12/2015

Fourth column allegedly written by Cantlie was published in the February edition of Islamic State’s magazine Dabiq, titled “The Anger Factory”:




UPDATE 03/30/2015

Fifth column allegedly written by Cantlie was published in the March/April edition of Islamic State’s magazine Dabiq, titled “Paradigm Shift”:




UPDATE 05/21/2015

Sixth column allegedly written by Cantlie was published in the May/June edition of Islamic State’s magazine Dabiq, titled “The Perfect Storm”:

[Laurent de Lyon]

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