Abu Dhabi: The Sawab Centre, a joint initiative by the UAE and the United States to fight Daesh’s extremist ideology online, has launched a new campaign via its Twitter and Instagram platforms under the hashtag #DeludedFollowers.
The campaign aims to expose the tactics used by Daesh to recruit foreign fighters from across the globe. It also coincides with the convening of the Global Coalition to Counter Daesh, a major counterterrorism meeting being held in The Hague, Netherlands. The event will serve to unite global efforts towards sharing information, stopping foreign terrorist fighters and protecting innocent civilians from terrorist violence.
The Sawab Centre has stressed that educating societies about the danger of joining terrorist organisations such as Daesh is a critical part of supporting global efforts towards limiting resources available for terrorism. The institution has said that despite all the measures taken so far, it is still extremely important to remain vigilant and deal with this issue firmly due to the security threats posed by Daesh and like-minded terrorist organisations, particularly following recent terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, France, Lebanon, Tunisia, and the US, as well as the daily terrorist atrocities committed against the people of Iraq, Libya and Syria.
The Centre will use its social media platforms to expose the recruitment methods used by Daesh and show how to limit and counter them in order to protect youth from falling prey to the lure of Daesh terrorism cloaked under the false pretences of “jihad” and misguided support for the so-called caliphate. Observations of the types of individuals being recruited as foreign fighters indicates clearly that Daesh is exploiting naïve and zealous youngsters and is distorting Islamic terminology to entice them into conflicts that often end with the death of these youngsters.
The Sawab Centre has said that the Daesh terrorist organisation has been trying since its inception to spread disunity among people and their leaders in order to create a state of chaos that it could exploit to provide it with human and financial resources. It especially targets those who feel desperate, are on the margins of society, and who are usually impacted by chaotic and unpredictable social and economic conditions.
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