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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nChief Tango sends us a link to the Washington Post<\/a> which reports that the State Department is fighting fire with fire in the propaganda war.<\/p>\n \u201cWelcome to ISIL-Land\u201d generated news stories and negative comments on Twitter about its extremely violent content and mocking tone. YouTube requires viewers to be 21 to watch it.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n The video that became prominent last week is one of several on a new State Department YouTube channel in English aimed at disaffected young Western Muslims who may be wowed by the Islamic State\u2019s battlefield momentum. The countermessage is simple: These guys are lying to you, and if you go to Syria to fight Western oppression you\u2019ll just end up killing innocent Muslims.<\/p>\n The 50-employee Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications is the State Department office behind the video. The organization was launched in 2011 to analyze and answer militant activity on social media and does most of its work in languages other than English.<\/p>\n The English-language YouTube channel was created in a rush in July as part of an expanded online message campaign following the fall of the strategic Iraqi city of Mosul to Islamic State militants, the senior State Department official said.<\/p>\n The same video was first posted in Arabic in July, and that version has more than 42,000 views on YouTube. The English-language version was also posted in July. It is part of a campaign called \u201cThink Again, Turn Away,\u201d that also tweets with the motto \u201csome truths about terrorism.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I guess the State Department hasn’t been paying attention; the brutality of ISIS\/ISIL\/The Islamic State is the big draw for young jihadists. They’re tired of the al Qaeda way of fighting wars and they want some new unbridled blood-drenched experience which IS offers. The fact that al Qaeda disowned IS should have been a hint. <\/p>\n And 42,000 viewers? Seriously? On a planet with 1.6 billion Muslims, they’ve reached 42 thousand? TAH gets more than 42 viewers in a slow week.<\/p>\n The United States understands that the lure of the Islamic State\u2019s jihadist message is strong, and fueled by grievance and history that no quick online American answer can fully address, the senior State Department official said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo we poke holes in their narrative, try to turn the tables,\u201d the official continued. \u201cYou\u2019re not going to get a knockout blow.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Poking holes in their narrative isn’t going to work either. See how I poked holes in the State Department’s narrative, but they won’t stop their counterproductive behavior, will they?<\/p>\n Carol Brown at American Thinker <\/a>concurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"