alhazred
All Fanatics Must Die
Greetings.
I've been following the global jihadi scene since IS went Caliphal in the summer of 2014, with a focus on IS and their video propaganda. An initial handful of shocking IS propaganda videos slowly grew into a collection, and the video folder now counts more than 100 files.
Note: While I've always been an extremophile of sorts, and got into this subject via the bloody headlines, I now study jihadism in general - and IS in particular - at a hobby-academic level. In addition to videos, I have all their English written propaganda (that also goes for Taliban and al-Qaeda), several books, more than 20 studies/reports/academic articles, etc.
I've made no attempt at keeping a complete record, but I believe I've succeeded in compiling a representative one. I have most if not all English-speaking videos, videos targeting international audiences (produced with subtitles), and some subtitled after release. I've mostly refrained from collecting dozens of versions of essentially the same video, so there's no endless line of clips from tiny Jihadi groups pledging allegiance or reports about the food markets inside the IS state. That said, I do save and collect examples from the whole range of propaganda.
One department where I've been less strict and might have erred on the side of hoarding, is gore. I've manually deleted dozens of execution videos just for being too similar, but I've always saved the new video if a) it was reported on in mainstream media or b) the video displayed a new method, approach to violence or manner of cutting not reflected in previous releases. Close to all my IS videos are sorted by exact date of release in the file name.
Most, if not all, the material is available elsewhere online; a good place to start is Aaron Zelin's Jihadology blog, which archives jihadi propaganda in general. But a) Jihadology does not host some of the most gruesome videos, and many of my files are too gory for public hosting there and b) the new Jihadi download sites go down pretty fast. 10-15 working links today means one or two a day later, if you're lucky. They do surface again, but really, tracking IS-affiliated outlets online gets old pretty fast.
Now I wonder, where can I find like-minded people, as in non-violent and moderate people with extreme and violent fields of interest, who are collecting or wish to collect material of the aforementioned type, who has SOME interest in the subject matter outside of just the gore, and with whom I can have a safe exchange of content and information?
I won't just torrent the whole thing off without regard for the audience, for both moral and practical reasons (AQ's Inspire Magazine can be too inspiring). That said, feel free to request any file or ask any question. 18 months of this, without similar minds to play with, has taken its toll. I need to vent.
PS. The bandwidth situation is not the best these days; getting to a proper line may take a few days. I'm open to sharing the whole thing somewhere, but someone else has to fix hosting, etc. and it would have to be something more than just a file dump.
PPS. Part of the intention behind this call is to fill holes in my own collection; I've not always been good at keeping up. It could well be that I lack the one thing you're looking for.
PPPS. I hope the nature of this forum excludes the need to reiterate ad nauseam about how horrible IS are and so on, and explain that I'm actually a nice guy with a kid and a job and a cat and a girlfriend, who just happens to be interested in some unusual topics.
I've been following the global jihadi scene since IS went Caliphal in the summer of 2014, with a focus on IS and their video propaganda. An initial handful of shocking IS propaganda videos slowly grew into a collection, and the video folder now counts more than 100 files.
Note: While I've always been an extremophile of sorts, and got into this subject via the bloody headlines, I now study jihadism in general - and IS in particular - at a hobby-academic level. In addition to videos, I have all their English written propaganda (that also goes for Taliban and al-Qaeda), several books, more than 20 studies/reports/academic articles, etc.
I've made no attempt at keeping a complete record, but I believe I've succeeded in compiling a representative one. I have most if not all English-speaking videos, videos targeting international audiences (produced with subtitles), and some subtitled after release. I've mostly refrained from collecting dozens of versions of essentially the same video, so there's no endless line of clips from tiny Jihadi groups pledging allegiance or reports about the food markets inside the IS state. That said, I do save and collect examples from the whole range of propaganda.
One department where I've been less strict and might have erred on the side of hoarding, is gore. I've manually deleted dozens of execution videos just for being too similar, but I've always saved the new video if a) it was reported on in mainstream media or b) the video displayed a new method, approach to violence or manner of cutting not reflected in previous releases. Close to all my IS videos are sorted by exact date of release in the file name.
Most, if not all, the material is available elsewhere online; a good place to start is Aaron Zelin's Jihadology blog, which archives jihadi propaganda in general. But a) Jihadology does not host some of the most gruesome videos, and many of my files are too gory for public hosting there and b) the new Jihadi download sites go down pretty fast. 10-15 working links today means one or two a day later, if you're lucky. They do surface again, but really, tracking IS-affiliated outlets online gets old pretty fast.
Now I wonder, where can I find like-minded people, as in non-violent and moderate people with extreme and violent fields of interest, who are collecting or wish to collect material of the aforementioned type, who has SOME interest in the subject matter outside of just the gore, and with whom I can have a safe exchange of content and information?
I won't just torrent the whole thing off without regard for the audience, for both moral and practical reasons (AQ's Inspire Magazine can be too inspiring). That said, feel free to request any file or ask any question. 18 months of this, without similar minds to play with, has taken its toll. I need to vent.
PS. The bandwidth situation is not the best these days; getting to a proper line may take a few days. I'm open to sharing the whole thing somewhere, but someone else has to fix hosting, etc. and it would have to be something more than just a file dump.
PPS. Part of the intention behind this call is to fill holes in my own collection; I've not always been good at keeping up. It could well be that I lack the one thing you're looking for.
PPPS. I hope the nature of this forum excludes the need to reiterate ad nauseam about how horrible IS are and so on, and explain that I'm actually a nice guy with a kid and a job and a cat and a girlfriend, who just happens to be interested in some unusual topics.
