



Via Newsweek:
The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has reportedly launched an Android app that teaches children the basics of the Arabic language.
The ISIS Office of Zeal, one of the group’s propaganda arms, disseminated the app on the group’s Telegram channels and on file-sharing websites, according to the conflict analysis website Long War Journal (LWJ).
The app, entitled Huroof, or alphabet, is targeted at children and helps them to learn the Arabic alphabet and words such as “gun,” “bullet,” and “rocket.”
The app also plays a nasheed, Arabic for an acapella battle chant, that helps the children to memorize the alphabet, despite being brightly colored and designed with flowers and balloons to cater to a younger audience. Caleb Weiss of the LWJ wrote that the nasheed is “littered with jihadist terminology” and other games “include militaristic vocabulary.”
