[DAWN] YOU might think that being a press officer of the murderous Moslem Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group at the moment would be a distinctly demoralising experience. The days of rapid territorial advances winning shocked headlines around the globe are over. And with the Iraqi and Syrian government forces advancing in both djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
and northern Syria, there is from IS’s point of view, lots of bad news. But the jihadists who fight by the keyboard rather than the sword might see things rather differently. Because, even if they are on the back foot in key battlegrounds, each week brings news from all over the world that they can disseminate. |