Introduction
Attention :
The images analysed in this chapter have been produced as propaganda by one of the most violent armed groups of the early 21st century. We draw the attention of students/ teachers to the damaging nature of their content without the filter of critical study.
Dar-al-Islam is the organ of the press which has relayed Daesh's propaganda in French since December 2014 with its own contributions and translations from Dabiq, the English language magazine of the Islamic State created in July 2014, a few weeks after the proclamation of the 'Islamic State'. It is the official voice of Daesh and has been posted online ten times since autumn 2016. The two publications are produced by a multi-media organisation called the 'Al-Hayat Media Centre', the Daesh organ of communication which spreads its propaganda, especially on Twitter.
With sophisticated rhetoric and a Western journalistic style, covering religious as well as secular issues, information drawn from good sources and a genuine capacity for analysis and good writing, Dar-al-Islam ,presents as both a tool for recruitment and a way of establishing an Islamic State, that is to say, the Caliphate. Dar-al-Islam is clear in its aim to be a “tool for the incitement of Hijra[1] and Jihad”, the two elements key to the Daesh politico-religious project. The war is therefore ideological as it plays out on the battlefield and it is also a war of propaganda, a media war through text and images.
Denis Crouzet and Jean-Marie Le Gall, in their little book Au peril des guerres de religion. Reflexion de deux historiens sur nos temps, shows the eschatological dimension of Daesh's politico-religious project, at some distance from post-colonial accounts of it being tied to economic humiliation or pre-existing conflicts in the Middle East. We are going to try to verify this hypothesis through the reading of the ten issues of Dar-al-Islam.
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