While violent recruitment videos have long been ISIS’s stock in trade, the group’s leadership is said to be concerned that jihadists trying to one-up each other are taking things too far, and have issued an edict admonishing fighters to tone things done to “respect the sensitivities” of viewers.
The edict came to the ISIS media offices by way of Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and featured some specific limits, including telling them to stop showing full beheadings, and simply limit the video to showing the slitting of the throat and the severed head after.
ISIS sources are said to have been particularly concerned that the videos are too scary for children to watch, and risks alienating them from a future generation of recruits. At the same time, some ISIS members are opposing the ban, saying the videos are meant to intimidate enemies.
The timing of the edict is unclear, so it is not known if recent beheading videos were done in violation of the rule, or were simply the impetus for the imposition of the rule in the first place.
ISIS Public Relations – The most contradictory outfit on the planet.
They need to hire one of those highly paid advertising company with attached "public relations" from New York or London to dress their killers with more of a fashionable, or if they could dress these killers, anti humans, terrorism, barbarians with a new designed barbaric derss.
ISIS is not real ISIS, it's a ideology to finish of america and Israel.
Albadagoonushy is not in charge of ISIS, and this type of order does not sound like it is coming from within it sounds like it is from Israel.
it is quite a comical request to make about wars.
I think the transgender thing is getting to the head of the west they are very distanced from reality with rainbow colors and gay marriages.
If they are interested in protecting children's fear don't start no more fights and wars on the back of lies of WMD, America and Israel should pack up and leave the Middle East.
I hope that Rita Katz and her SITE Intelligence group, the one that released the Steven Sotloff beheading video, received the memo.
"….the ISIS media offices……"
Wanna make a bet those offices are in Virginia?! I am astonished that anyone would swallow any of this.
Can't anyone take out their leadership?
what the USA?
The videos are watched by westerners for the most..jihadist on the frontline are not sitting around watching snuff films. It was just a matter of time before they clamped down it.
A lot of the ideas of murder in Isis videos are proposition online. It’s a glorification of murder on the helpless and those with hint of humanity within Isis recognize it as such.
Jul 10, 2015 Forget ISIS: Russia and China Biggest Threat Says Pentagon
The Pentagon's recently released Military Strategy of the United States for 2015 concludes that Russia and China are the greatest threats to the US — more so than even non-state actors like ISIS. Perhaps. But who is the greatest threat to our liberties?
https://youtu.be/mu7SX12Vlhs