THE transnational militant organisation Islamic State (IS), which has seized control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria in the past year, recently published its online magazine, Dabiq. Its articles in Arabic and several other languages, including French, German, Russian and Indonesian, focus on ideological and strategic narratives, unlike al-Qaedas Inspire magazine that contained bomb-making recipes and other terrorist instructions. Inspire and Dabiq represent two major challenges of online extremism, namely, the Internet as a terrorist learning laboratory and the spread of extremist narratives to promote online radicalisation.
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