ISIS magazine preparing young Muslims for an apocalypse
Analysis: The young people trying to cross over to Syria and Iraq from Turkey don't need Amazon in order to read Dabiq. Its latest issue offers them free health services at an international level, higher education programs, a great salary and an 'excellent' life at the prophet's expense.
It's safe to assume that Amazon's managers had no idea what black hole they were getting themselves into when they put Dabiq on sale for $12 a copy in its English, German, French and Spanish versions. Over the weekend, following a series of complaints, Amazon removed the problematic item without any explanation.
Dabiq is a town in northern Syria. The tradition adopted by the Islamic terror organizations insists that this is where the apocalypse will take place and that this will be the last stop before the caliphate. This is where the name of the magazine published by the Islamic State comes from. Nine issues have been published so far, each dedicated to a an issue aimed at serving the murderers in the name of Islam.
The production and writing team are located far from the ISIS fighting zones. They sit comfortably in front of the computer screens, know how to communicate without exposing themselves, order articles, receive reports from the ground, and publish pictures in expensive professional printing, because there are no budget restrictions.
In the two latest issues, thousands of words were dedicated to the case of women who have been taken captive by ISIS and turned into the sex slaves of the "holy war fighters." Are these miserable women prostitutes, or could they have saved themselves had they converted to the strict Islam?
ISIS has intentionally chosen women writers. With the help of Koran verses, they are attempting to prove that the hundreds of women kidnapped from their homes received the "appropriate punishment" after their spouses refused to move to "the right Islam."
A woman is merely an object, we learn from Dabiq, and her job is to produce the next generation of fighters and preserve the values of the "right" family. If it turns out that her conduct is "wrong," she will be abandoned, and it will be recommended to sell her to slavery, turn her into a "sex toy," and maybe even get rid of her when her price in the market drops below the value of the Iraqi dinar.
And speaking of the dinar, US First Lady Michelle Obama has received a burning insult from the Dabiq editors, who will agree to pay only one third of a dinar for her in the best-case scenario, and "even that is too much."
And there is the article of John Cantlie, the British photographer who was kidnapped by ISIS, released and kidnapped again, and is being held as Dabiq's "correspondent on the ground." This is his temporary insurance policy. Unfortunately for him, the last issue no longer includes his article, which always ends with the words "despite being a prisoner, I’ve been shown respect and kindness, which I haven’t seen from my own government."
Dabiq doesn't provide training on fighting methods or on beheading hostages. The shocking photos reveal elementary school children, who were invited to participate in a "punishment." They received guns and orders to shoot to death the heads of prisoners dressed in the orange uniform. The Dabiq editors didn't bother to remove the photos showing the frightened, shocked children. They will still learn, they explain.
And it appears to be working. Turkey has only now woken up to block young people landing in Istanbul from crossing over to Syria and Iraq. They don't need Amazon in order to read Dabiq. In the latest issue they are offered free health services at an international level, higher education programs, a great salary and an "excellent" life at the expense of "the prophet, who knows how to ward off the plots against him and who ordered the establishment of the Islamic caliphate's capital in Dabiq, ahead of taking over the heretics' world."
