Anonymous calls on the world to join ‘trolling day’ against Islamic State
ANONYMOUS is continuing its cyber war on the Islamic State, declaring today an official “trolling day” against the terrorist group.
ANONYMOUS is continuing its cyber war on the Islamic State, declaring today an official “trolling day” against the terrorist group.
The event is a part of the hacktivists’ “Operation IS” campaign. In an online post, Anonymous has urged people to mock IS, or “Daesh”.
“We ask you to show your support and help against IS by joining us and trolling them. Do not think you have to be part of Anonymous, anyone can do this and (it) does not require special skills,” the group said.
“We ask you to take part of this on Facebook // Twitter // Instagram // Youtube // In the “Real World,” the post on file-sharing website Ghostbin added.
Anonymous asked for people to use the hashtags #Daesh and #Daeshbags and “post photos showing you are not afraid ... openly call them Daesh and post photos of captured IS members and mock them”.
It called on Facebook users to “find ISIS accounts and out them to all of your friends asking to report them, openly call them Daesh and Daeshbags, and also spread mocking photos”.
YouTube users haven’t been left out, with a request for them to make “mocking videos”.
Offline, in the “Real World”, anyone can “print out photos that mock IS and spread them around your city, make stickers of mocking photos and put around your town, or print out pages showing how IS does not represent Islam”.
Anonymous is a group of unidentified hackers who have conducted cyber attacks on governments and corporations. It declared “war” on IS and stated it would conduct “massive” cyber attacks on the group after the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, which killed 130 people.
“You may be wondering why we are “trolling” IS and planning all these demonstrations against IS. But to understand that you must first see how IS works,” the group said in its original post.
“They thrive off of fear, they hope that by their actions they can silence all of us and get us to just lay low and hide in fear. But what many forget and even they do is that there are many more people in the world against them than for them. And that is the goal of this mass uprising, on December 11th we will show them that we are not afraid, we will not just hide in our fear, we are the majority and with our strength in numbers we can make a real difference.
“We will mock them for the idiots they are. We will show them what they really are — they do not stand for a religion, they do not stand for a god, they are brainwashers teaching from the young to the old their propaganda against the “west” when in reality they are just increasing the distance between countries by giving many a bad name. But we see behind their persona, we see them for who they really are. And we hope to see you all brothers and sisters on December 11th.
“As we join together and show who we are, what we are and what we stand for. I will not see you on December 11th for I am not a person, but an idea of love and peace and we will show them that we will prevail after all their horrors for they do not have any control on us. Please show others and support us on the 11th ... It will be a day they never forget.”
So far, the Islamic State has responded by calling the hackers “idiots”, and it appears to have posted advice online telling its followers how to prevent themselves from being hacked.
