ISIS’s propaganda success isn’t just online. Its magazine, Dabiq, is read all over the world. If only the U.S. government was so creative and effective.
The Obama Administration attributes much of ISIS’s success at communicating to its technological savvy, which has elevated the group to a global media and terrorist phenomenon. The president has gone so far as to say that the Paris attackers were a “bunch of killers with good social media.”
Despite the praise heaped on the so-called Islamic State for its cutting-edge propaganda online, one of its most effective products is decidedly low tech. Dabiq, ISIS’s online news magazine, has a small but devoted readership that spans the globe. News of advances on the battlefield excite them—more evidence that God’s kingdom on earth has returned and grows. Stories of fighters inspire them—more models to emulate as they contemplate what role they can play in the divine drama unfolding.
WNU Editor: The editors behind DABIQ clearly have the passion .... and I would not be surprised if they are doing it without pay.
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Calgary Police are currently investigating the shooting as a Gang Shooting, as the shooter, was a known "banger" and drug dealer connected to one of the new "fluid", multi ethnic gangs, and the suspected target is a known Hells Angel.
Who knows for sure but it did seem odd that he passed up about 3 people at point blank range if it was just a random terror attack,i guess we'll have to wait and see ..
Since the FOB/FB gang wars a decade ago, many Calgary "gangs" arn't the old "colours, BB for life", ethnic gangs.
They are looser organized around one enterprise, so that the leader and shot caller in say one groups meth trade, is just a "soldier" in another group's extortion trade. They are " loose" associations that are often multiethnic and "circle" overlap in structure, and tend to dispose of members and associates when they are no longer needed.
Very Anarchist in structure, and hard to "police".
Kind of reminds me of Sputnik and Pogrom (Russian secular far right nationalist online magazine). Slick modern design and clear ideology. Although of course the people behind SnP wish they had this much influence and popularity.
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