Posted on 11/29/2015 5:05:04 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
'It's similar to North Korea': Inside ISIS's sophisticated strategy to brainwash people in the 'caliphate'
Pamela Engel
Billboards, newsletters, radio stations, murals, big-screens, and pamphlets.
ISIS inundates the residents of its territory with propaganda that has become nearly impossible to escape.
It's well-known that ISIS has been very successful in disseminating its propaganda online to recruit Westerners to its self-proclaimed Islamic "caliphate," the swath of territory it controls in Iraq and Syria.
But ISIS also runs a sophisticated operation within the caliphate to brainwash the population it rules. The group has set up "media points" in the cities it controls to maximize the exposure of its propaganda to the public.
The media points are surprisingly high-tech. People can submit their own material or download media from machines that have built-in slots for SIM cards and flash drives. Large flat-screen TVs set up in public places show gruesome beheading videos alongside scenes of utopia. One activist from Raqqa, Syria, compared the screens ISIS has placed in central areas of the city to Times Square in New York — highly visible and well-known to those who live there.
ISIS also uses more old-school propaganda methods like blaring messages from speakers on trucks and hosting public beheadings.
"There's wall-to-wall propaganda in the caliphate. It's similar to North Korea," Charlie Winter, an expert on jihadism and ISIS propaganda, told Business Insider last month in London. "It obscures the realities of life and tempers discontent. It becomes a means of stabilization and continuous control."
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1. North Korea
2. ISIS
3. Obama and Company
Islam is a death cult.
Why should this behavior surprise anyone?
I will kill you gets your attention
And unionized government schooling in the US, and the government/media complex, and every other kind of persistent "narrative driven" messages.
Wonder how many American Journolistas have offered their services.
The administration is not only proud but jealous and working hard at dismembering the Constitution of 2nd Amendment rights and then 1st Amendment rights.
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