Deash launches unprecedented campaign calling for Wilayat Sinai recruits
Daesh has launched an extensive, and unprecedented, campaign in which 14 of its divisions released propaganda videos promoting Egyptian affiliate Wilayat Sinai, Executive Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Nancy Okail writes for Huffington Post. The videos were released over 5-7 May and “reflect a high degree of message adaptiveness and coordination not before seen from the group.” The messages are targeted at potential recruits from both Sinai and the rest of Egypt. “The messages reflect a sign of desperation and dire need for support to a struggling sister province of Sinai. In this series, [Daesh] calls for support for Sinai Province while portraying very contentious issues in Egypt, including the two Egyptian islands handed to Saudi Arabia by President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi … More importantly, however, they focus on the injustices suffered by the Egyptian people in recent years.”