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Via The Telegraph
In a world where lapses in dress sense can be punishable by death, it could well prove to be essential reading.
“Jihadi Vogue”, an online version of the famous fashion magazine, sells itself as the “Style Quran” for the average mujahedeen, offering everything from tips on the right headbands to wear in combat, through to “eight reasons why moustaches are out”.
It is not, however, the latest innovation from the social media wing of the Islamic State, the jihadist group that is now building its own “Caliphate” in northern Iraq.
Instead, it is one of numerous spoofs that have surfaced online to lampoon the group’s posturing, extremist ways.
The spoofs are thought to be the handiwork of anonymous amateurs rather than any kind of CIA-sponsored “black PR” campaign.
But with the Islamic State’s own propaganda wing producing a daily stream of pictures and commentaries on life in the new caliphate, there is clearly no shortage of material to satirise.
Prominent among the the spoofs are @caliphibrahim, a fake Twitter account for Abubakar Al Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, who recently appeared in a video speaking at a mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
The fake Twitter account makes light of the fact that despite his pious ways, the video showed him wearing what appeared to be an expensive Swiss wrist watch.
