The ISIS Beheadings You Won
(But Won’t Hear About)
That shows how ISIS targets its audience
(article is reproduced integrally, except for the title slightly manipulated from its original: ''The ISIS Beheadings You Won't Hear About'')
So far, no Western media appear to have reported on the release, which isn’t that surprising, but it does sit in stark contrast to the coverage given on Friday to the Islamic State’s unconfirmed claims that a U.S.-led coalition airstrike had killed American aid worker and ISIS hostage Kayla Jean Mueller. Further, last week’s release of a video showing captive Jordanian pilot Muadh al-Ksasbeh burned alive received a massive amount of press—partly because Jordan is a comparatively Western-friendly state, and one that is involved in the fight against ISIS, and partly because the king of Jordan was in the U.S. at the time.
Even this under-the-radar video shows how ISIS plays the media like a violin. Its videos of the executions of Westerners, or Western-friendly infidels, are produced for a Western audience. They are polished in production and subtitled in English—so you can imagine the delight in ISIS HQ when Fox News in the U.S. aired the execution video in full online.
This latest video, on the other hand, had subtitles only in Arabic. These victims are Muslims who worked for the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a battle on the Tabqa air base near the Syrian city of Raqqa. It was carefully shot, for sure, but ISIS knew the men wouldn’t get any play in the Western press, so it was crafted solely for an Arabic-speaking audience.
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The ISIS Beheadings You Won
(But Won’t Hear About)
That shows how ISIS targets its audience
ISIS
released a video on Saturday showing
militants beheading three Arabic-speaking prisoners. Called “Harvest of
the Apostates,” the high-quality clip features common characteristics of
ISIS propaganda: interviews with the hostages, up-close shots of their faces,
complete subtitles, animated graphics and gruesome, unflinching footage of
three men being beheaded with bowie knives.
So far,
no Western media appear to have reported on the release, which isn’t that
surprising, but it does sit in stark contrast to the coverage
given on Friday to the Islamic State’s unconfirmed claims that a U.S.-led coalition
airstrike had killed American aid worker and ISIS hostage Kayla Jean Mueller.
Further, last week’s release of a video showing captive Jordanian
pilot Muadh al-Ksasbeh burned alive received a massive amount of press—partly
because Jordan is a comparatively Western-friendly state, and one
that is involved in the fight against ISIS, and partly because the king of
Jordan was in the U.S. at the time.
Even this
under-the-radar video shows how ISIS plays the media like a violin.
Its videos of the executions of Westerners, or Western-friendly infidels,
are produced for a Western audience. They are polished
in production and subtitled in English—so you can imagine the delight in ISIS HQ when Fox
News in the U.S. aired the execution video in full online. This latest video, on the other
hand, had subtitles only in Arabic. These victims are Muslims who worked for
the army of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a battle on the Tabqa air base
near the Syrian city of Raqqa. It was carefully shot, for sure, but ISIS knew
the men wouldn’t get any play in the Western press, so it was crafted solely
for an Arabic-speaking audience.
http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/isis-beheading-video/?utm_campaign=International&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=outbrain
