Islamic State magazine Dabiq celebrates ‘the revival of slavery’ and defends capturing women

NEWLY published propaganda material from Islamic State celebrates “the revival of slavery” and defends capturing women.

Islamic State ‘bringing slavery back’

NEWLY published propaganda material from Islamic State celebrates “the revival of slavery” and defends capturing women.

The fourth edition of Dabiq magazine, the terror outfit’s English language magazine, was released this week.

It was revealed yesterday that the sleek digital publication included specific directions to target Australians, but it turns out those weren’t the only disturbing details hidden in its 50 pages.

In an article entitled “the revival of slavery”, published on behalf of “an official Islamic State spokesman”, the group appears to defend its enslavement of women.

It suggests enslaving families and “taking their women” is firmly established in the Koran, and suggestion otherwise would be anti-Islam and “mocking” towards the prophet.

The article threatens enemies that followers of IS will “enslave your women, by the permission of Allah, the Exalted”, and details conquests in which “women and children were divided according to the Shari’ah among the fighters of the Islamic State”.

It goes on to highlight the disadvantages of abandoning slavery.

“The desertion of slavery have let to an increase in fahishah (adultery, fornication, etc.),” it says.

“This again is from the consequences of abandoning jihad.”

The disturbing messaging comes as humanitarian organisation Human Rights Watch has published a shocking report on Islamic State’s treatment of women and girls.

“The Islamic State’s litany of horrific crimes against the Yezidis in Iraq only keeps growing,” said Fred Abrahams, special adviser at Human Rights Watch.

“We heard shocking stories of forced religious conversions, forced marriage, and even sexual assault and slavery — and some of the victims were children.”

The magazine also acts as a platform for Islamic State to boast about their ‘good work’ as well.

The magazine’s articles boast of recent Islamic State attacks and shows pictures of bloody corpses as trophies of its conquests.

The propaganda title also shows disturbingly pleasant-looking images of children and elderly people in areas IS has captured, posing with Islamic State flags in an attempt to show off the “charitable” work the terror outfit purports to be doing.

“The soldiers of Allah do not liberate a village, town or city, only to abandon its residents and ignore their needs,” an article begins.

Restoring electricity in the city of ar-raqqah, cancer treatment for children, street cleaning services, and a care home are among the reportage of good deeds Dabiq reports on.

Yesterday it emerged that the magazine, a recruitment tool for the organisation aimed at young men, had instructed its readers to target Australians in future attacks.

“At this point of the crusade against the Islamic State, it is very important that attacks take place in every country that has entered into the alliance against the Islamic State, especially the US, UK, France, Australia and Germany,” it states.

“The citizens of crusader nations should be targeted wherever they can be found.”

The disturbing apocalyptic cover of an earlier issue of Dabiq.

Previous editions have outlined instructions for invasion, boasted of killings and martyrdom, and predicted an apocalyptic war.

An explanation of the name of the magazine in the first issue outlines the apocalyptic message and makes sense of some of the destructive images of a world in destruction that are common across the publication’s three issues.

“This place (Dabiq) was mentioned in a hadith describing some of the events of the Malahim (what is sometimes referred to as Armageddon in English). One of the greatest battles between the Muslims and the crusaders will take place near Dabiq,” it reads.

The editorial goes on to detail the outfit’s aim, outlining a blunt terror agenda.

“The Muslims today have a loud, thundering statement, and possess heavy boots. They have a statement to make that will cause the world to hear and understand the meaning of terrorism, and boots that will trample the idol of nationalism, destroy the idol of democracy, and uncover its deviant nature.”