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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria produces video recruiting Muslims in U.S. and Europe for jihad in Syria, domestic jihad attacks

Jun 13, 2014 1:04 pm By Robert Spencer

There is no doubt that we will be suffering the consequences of recent events in Iraq and Syria for years to come. Muslims who travel to Syria or Iraq to wage jihad ought not to be allowed back into the country, but such a measure would perhaps be “Islamophobic.”

Note: It is confusing for the media to refer to the ISIL and ISIS. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria are one and the same. The name of the group is The Islamic State of Iraq and as-Shams, which is Syria and Lebanon — so “the Levant” is a more precise translation, but in any case reporters should settle on one or the other with the unanimity with which they ignore and deny the jihad threat.

“New Al Qaeda Group Produces Recruitment Material for Americans, Westerners,” by Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon, June 13, 2014:

Al Qaeda’s ultra-extremist Syrian offshoot known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is stepping up efforts to recruit Americans and other westerners for jihad in Syria and possibly for future domestic terror attacks, according to U.S. officials.

A new media outlet affiliated with ISIL recently began producing recruiting materials in both English and German that U.S. intelligence analysts say is a sign they are targeting western jihadists for recruitment.

It is the first time ISIL, one of the most prominent ultra-violent jihadists among Syria rebels groups, has set up a western-oriented media arm.

ISIL also is leading the major military operations now under way in Iran that has produced the group’s take over of several Iraqi cities, including Mosul, the second largest.

According to U.S. officials, the new media outlet is called the Al Hayat Media Center that is under the authority of the ISIL’s official propaganda arm, the Al-Itisam Establishment for Media Production.

Recent ISIL recruitment products include English-language videos, pamphlets, and a magazine.

Analysts say the products appear to have been produced by competent English speakers and are devoid of spelling and grammatical errors, while including Arabic phrases and words….

The center on May 31 produced a seven-page pamphlet called “Islamic State News” with a series of photographs covered with phrases that condemn military attacks on ISIL and tout the terror groups operations in Syria and Iraq. It also highlighted the groups public outreach programs that include humanitarian and education programs as well as showing how the group governs territory.

A second pamphlet of Islamic State News was published June 5.

For broadcast media, the ISIL between June 2 and June 4 unveiled three short videos that were promoted via links on Twitter.

The first was an ISIL recruitment video containing photos of the group’s fighters and military operations overlaid with a sound track of an Islamic religious chant.

The June 2 video urges English-speaking Muslims to take up arms in jihad, or holy war.

The video was produced by Al-Itisam Establishment for Media Production, the official propaganda arm of ISIL in Syria.

Titled, “Soldiers of Truth,” the video contains images of jihadists in the Syrian conflict. Superimposed over the photos are English phrases urging the creation of an “Islamic state,” along with anti-western and anti-Semitic propaganda phrases superimposed over them.

The sound track is an ISIL Islamist chant that includes the phrase “Jewish rabbis will be humiliated.”

The video was posted on YouTube but later removed. A copy can be seen here. 

For potential German terror recruits, a second ISIL video featured a German jihadist fighter, Steffen Koblitz, chanting in German. This video can be seen here.

A third video showed ISIL terrorists distributing candy and ice cream to children.

On June 3, the ISIL media center published a seven page Islamic State Report in English with several articles and interviews with ISIL officials who discussed how the group governs through Sharia law.

Officials said the English language media are part of a major push by ISIL to recruit westerners through social media like Twitter and Facebook.

Although terrorist groups’ use of such social media are barred under the social media outlets’ terms of use, terrorist groups are expanding their use of social media which has become widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa.

The creation of the Al Hayat Media Center and the new recruitment materials is a step up from ISIL’s activities in the past, which were limited to producing a series of posters during the latter half of 2013 promoting violent jihad.

The ISIL is an offshoot of the central al Qaeda organization headed by Egyptian Ayman al Zawahiri.

The two groups are engaged in fierce competition in Syria. The official al Qaeda rebel group in Syria is the Al Nusrah Front, which also has conducted some limited recruitment activities aimed at creating foreign jihadists.

American intelligence officials told reporters last year that dozens of Americans have made the journey to Syria to join Islamist rebels and the activities have raised new concerns that the trained jihadists will return to the United States and Europe to conduct terror attacks.

The attack on a Jewish facility in Belgium recently was traced to a French jihadist who had returned from Syria.

Around 600 westerners from Europe, North America, and Australia are believed to be in Syria as part of the Islamist rebels.

Around 6,000 to 11,000 foreign fighters are believed to be in Syria from all over the world.

An American known as Abu Hurayra Al-Amriki took part in a suicide bombing attack in Syria, U.S. officials have said.

U.S. intelligence agencies estimate there are dozens of Americans traveling to join the Islamists.

“It’s a very steady increase, and I expect that to continue as long as the fighting there continues,” a senior U.S. intelligence official told the New York Times in November….

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Jun 13, 2014 at 1:15 pm

    Well, they come out from among us, but they are not of us; for if they were of us, they would have abided with us–the Jihadist True Believers, that is.

    Is is quite evident that we have a genuine Fifth Column here in non-Muslim societies.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jun 13, 2014 at 1:17 pm

      Is they were of us, they would have remained with us, that is.

      • John C. Barile says

        Jun 13, 2014 at 1:19 pm

        “if they were of us, they would have remained with us.”

    • Charli Main says

      Jun 13, 2014 at 1:45 pm

      ” we have a genuine 5th column here”
      Yes John— they are called ” Muslim refugees” and “Muslim asylum seekers”
      These Muslims are not looking for a new life in another country. Their ultimate objective, is to turn the country that has given a home, into a copy of the Muslim shithole they ran away from, under the aegis of Sharia Law.

    • Budvarakbar says

      Jun 13, 2014 at 3:28 pm

      Is and has been in the WH — has? you ask? — yes ever since the boosche moron declared Islam to be a religion of peace — stoopid a-hole — anyone with any knowledge at all of the last 1500 years of western and african history – KNOWS that to be a treasonous statement — and has been for 1500 years. The western world is in sore need for a combo of Vlad the impaler, Sobieski, Charles Martel, Fredinand and Isabella, Cromwell, Sherman and Patton

  2. Ashley says

    Jun 13, 2014 at 1:43 pm

    What a chilling, frightening and horrific video clip.

    These are indeed dark days…

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 14, 2014 at 5:51 am

      Take away the veil of lies and Islam falls apart under its own weight.
      Islam is nothing but perfumed doo doo

  3. eib says

    Jun 13, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    Quote:
    Around 600 westerners from Europe, North America, and Australia are believed to be in Syria as part of the Islamist rebels.
    end

    If they are fighting under the star and crescent, they are not Westerners.
    They are traitors to 7,000 years of history.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jun 14, 2014 at 5:55 am

      When they realize that Islam is a hoax it will be to late because Islam has no love it only survives on hate.

  4. Islamisdeath says

    Jun 13, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    Satan is on the march and yes Shitlery these guys are a threat to the United States. Your daughter, Shitlery, is married to a left wing Jew but a Jew is a Jew to these psychopaths.

  5. Jay Boo says

    Jun 13, 2014 at 9:58 pm

    It sounds like they are saying in English
    “Honor kill your hoori daughters”

  6. Jay Boo says

    Jun 14, 2014 at 5:47 am

    Doublespeak blasphemy of Islam
    Islam is the only religion that implicitly allows its followers to partner with and even speak for its god ‘Allah’ while simultaneously explicitly denying it does this.

    No wonder Muslims love to honor kill their own daughters.
    What would the daughters of Allah (53:19) say about this?

  7. Mike says

    Jun 14, 2014 at 4:39 pm

    I can see how the Arabic calligraphy or pictures of old mosques in an album can appeal to a young, alienated person. But how can anyone be drawn to Islam after seeing a random sample of Muslims is beyond me.

  8. General Ackbar says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 3:19 pm

    I THOUGHT MUSIC WAS HARAM!? Why are they singing in the video? Music is halal if it’s jihad music???

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