Extremist Content Online: Last Edition of ISIS Magazine Youth of the Caliphate Released

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Extremist Content Online: Last Edition of ISIS Magazine Youth of the Caliphate Released
ISIS Publishes Two Additional Videos; White Supremacist Telegram Channel Threatens Violence

(New York, N.Y.) - The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the methods used by extremists to exploit the Internet and social media platforms to recruit followers and incite violence. This week, a pro-ISIS group, Abd al-Faqir, released what it claims to be the last edition of the Youth of the Caliphate magazine and ISIS itself released two videos on multiple websites. Additionally, a white supremacist Telegram channel threatened synagogues and praised the Midland-Odessa shooting on August 31.

New Release of Pro-ISIS Youth of the Caliphate Magazine

On September 1, the 12th issue of the pro-ISIS magazine Youth of the Caliphate was released on Telegram and the OwnCloud cloud storage site. Youth of the Caliphate is a collaboration of five pro-ISIS groups: Sunni Shield, Al Saqri Foundation, Abd al-Faqir, Sarh al Khilafah, and Al Battar. The magazine included articles on recently released official ISIS and unofficial videos, stories about dead ISIS fighters, and information on how to contact pro-ISIS groups on Telegram. Additional magazine articles encouraged attacks by women, and accused the West of imperialist expansion in Africa, compared to ISIS’s new self-proclaimed provinces in West Africa, Central Africa, and East Africa.

On September 4, a Telegram account claiming an affiliation with the pro-ISIS Abd al-Faqir propaganda group issued a notice that production of Youth of the Caliphate magazine would cease. The group warned that any alleged future communications from Telegram or social media accounts claiming to represent the magazine are not genuine.

Read more at: https://www.counterextremism.com/press/extremist-content-online-last-edition-isis-magazine-youth-caliphate-released