ISIS may be dangerous like a rabid animal, but it has proven itself incredibly stupid by posting a selfie of one ot its "fighters" with a woman's severed head. I say "stupid" because atrocities against women are the most effective propaganda with which to incite murderous hatred in Euro-American countries. The actual image is highly graphic, and I won't post it here, but it is available here.
It is vital to copy and circulate it as widely as possible because, as stated by Colonel Paul Linebarger's Psychological Warfare, bundles of leaflets that fall intact make little impression on the target audience unless they land on somebody's head, which is not the impression one wants to make. Propaganda of this nature needs to go viral and spread as widely as possible to achieve the desired effect of inciting widespread revulsion against militant "Islam." If circulated in Europe, it will help promote the rising backlash against Islamist immigrants who are trying to carve out Sharia compliant zones while they claim their religion gives them the right to rob, rape, kill, and/or enslave infidels, who include the wrong kinds of Muslims. These Islamists are also, of course, the source of most of Europe's anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiment.
The background of this story is ISIS's claim to have captured and executed a brave Kurdish fighter named Rehana, who has purportedly sent more than a hundred ISIS terrorists to their one-on-one meetings with Allah and their 72 virgins. There are three possible sources for this image:
(1) ISIS did capture and behead this brave woman
(2) ISIS terrorists, who are generally too cowardly to fight anybody who might harm them, especially a woman whose kill record shows she has the potential to be another Lyudmila Pavlichenko, slaughtered a helpless woman and presented her head as Rehana's. This will do them little good when Rehana gets the heads of said ISIS "fighters" into her sights in a process well depicted by the rock group Sabaton.
Hundreds of kills. a man and his rifle embody the sisu of Finns
Stay out of sight and cover your head, when he pulls the trigger you’re dead
(3) ISIS photomanipulated Rehana's head into the hand of the terroristwho is posing for the selfie, which has the same long-run implications as #2.
However, it doesn't matter which story is true because ISIS says the head is Rehana's. When we circulate this image to evoke widespread revulsion and hatred of every single person in Europe and North America who so much as seems to share ISIS's ideology (including Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaida, and so on along with the Muslim Student Association, Students for Justice in Palestine, and so on), ISIS cannot backtrack and say, "It's really a fake." They claimed "credit" for this woman's execution and, as they say, when you make your bed, you must lie in it. In this case, it's more like, when you dig your grave, you must lie in it.
To put this image in perspective, consider the kind of hate propaganda that was issued primarily by the Triple Entente during the First World War, and by the U.S. War Department in the Second. Entente cartoonists were fond of drawing "Huns" with babies on their bayonets, and even an ape in a spiked helmet with a half-naked woman over his shoulder. Second World War cartoons showed "Japs" with exaggerated Asian features menacing (but rarely actually harming) American women, and another showed an Imperial Japanese hitting a prisoner of war with his rifle butt. The caption under that one said, "Stay on the job until every murdering Jap is wiped out."
What is telling is the fact that ALL these propaganda posters relied on hand-drawn pictures because the Nazis and Imperial Japanese were not STUPID enough to send us selfies of them gassing concentration camp inmates or using Chinese prisoners for bayonet practice. ISIS, on the other hand, has just provided us with a picture of one of its members holding a woman's severed head. This picture alone is probably more effective at whipping up hatred of the enemy (Islamists in this case) than ALL the hate propaganda that was deployed by both sides during both World Wars. This is why we need to take it viral.
