New Delhi: Taking a cue from their rival group ISIS, Al-Qaeda's Somalian wing—Harkat Al Shabab has come up with a new way to lure the adventure seeking youth into the organisation.
Al Shabab's media wing has released a slick recruitment video promising vacation of a lifetime — going up an equatorial river in a rowboat, camping by a jungle lake, and a chance to shoot giraffes and Cape buffaloes.
While claiming that jihad is the 'tourism of the ummah (nation)' , the terror group try to portray life of a jihadist like an adventure holiday in the jungle.
You eat, drink and hunt for free,” the video quotes jihadist patriarch Abdullah Azzam, Osama Bin Laden's mentor, as saying. “Not in Bangkok or Los Angeles, or paying $500 a night at a London hotel. It is an entertaining journey of tourism and hunting. Indeed, the tourism of my nation is jihad.
The idea of portraying jihad as a tourism activity comes from the words of the Abdullah Azzam, the so-called Godfather of Jihad.
The fighter also slams the Kenyan government for their recent attacks on al-Shabaab forces.
The shocking video also shows militants from the al-Qaeda affiliated group hunting a giraffe and hacking its body into pieces n the Boni forrests whilst another fighter urged Muslims to wage jihad.
The group justified their actions by claiming that giraffes' are a permittable reward from God.
Another insurgent boasts, “Here, you do not need a permit to hunt these animals. In the lands of Islam these animals are free.”
After killing giraffe, the militants are shown hunting an African buffalo as well as catching a large hoard of colourful red fish.
The Jihadis in Somalia openly admit to poaching animals in nature reserves to feed their small army of militants.
Several Caucausian looking fighters are seen relaxing in the video. The propaganda video never shows their real faces which are kept muzzed.
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