Manuals on Google and Facebook told fanatics how to make bombs and target concerts
AN ISLAMIC State manual instructing followers to murder children and target concerts was published just days ago and spread through Google, Facebook and Twitter.
The sick terror guide was found by reporters in less than a minute yesterday during a search of social media sites.
It was online even though the websites have been warned repeatedly that they are being used by jihadists to recruit Britons.
The manual tells would-be attackers to murder children because they have not embraced Islam and ‘their blood is waste’, and to kill as many kuffar – meaning non-believers, and also written as kafir – ‘as physically possible’.
It suggests targeting concert halls with few exit points, adding: ‘ The objective is to create as much carnage and terror as one possibly can.
‘Ideal locations for hostage-taking’ include ‘ nightclubs, movie theatres, busy shopping malls and stores, popular restaurants, concert halls, university campuses, public swimming pools and indoor ice skating rinks’.
It added: ‘ Characteristics of a good location include low light, as it grants one the ability to manoeuvre between the people, taking advantage of the confusion and killing as many kuffar as physically possible.’
In a chilling echo of the Manchester attack, it adds: ‘If one is alone in his operation then ideally a location that has a minimal number of exit points would be more appropriate.’
The IS guide uploaded this month said Westminster killer Khalid Masood set an ‘heroic example’. It claimed he ‘demonstrated practically for other Muslims how one can attain Allah’s pleasure and escape His wrath’. The chilling texts came to light as anger at social media firms grows for failing to remove extremist content.
After the Westminster attack in which five people were killed, the Mail told how guides on how to mount a car and stabbing attack could be found online in minutes.
Masood used the social media app Whatsapp just before starting his rampage.
The manuals found by reporters yesterday were available through links on Google, Face- book and Twitter. The IS manual published this month suggests tactics for terrorists in the West to murder civilians.
The latest edition instructs them to murder children, adding: ‘Their blood is waste – just like the blood of the combatants – because their blood is not protected since they [haven’t] embraced Islam.’
It offers sources from Islamic scripture to convince Muslims that killing children is allowed – and denounces Muslim scholars who disagree with this as ‘effeminate’. Readers are told they can murder children as long as men are also present. This may explain why the Manchester bomber targeted the arena’s exit as parents picked up their children.
An earlier version includes an image of a knife covered in blood, which spills out to spell the words ‘the kafir’s blood is halal for you, so shed it.’
An accompanying article describes targets it deems
legitimate, including young people playing in the park.
the guide adds: ‘one should not grieve over the collateral killing of kafir women and children. instead, he should realise that Allah had decreed their deaths by his exact justice and great wisdom.’
A separate jihadists’ manual discovered by the Mail through social media gives step-bystep instructions to make the kind of nail bomb used in Manchester, with a chapter headed ‘Bomb making at home’.
Found through Google, Facebook and twitter, it gives details on making bombs filled with shrapnel such as nails and ball-bearings to ‘shoot in every direction’ and ‘cut people when the fuel explodes’.
readers are also directed to videos on youtube, which offer tutorials on bomb-making. youtube is owned by Google.
the tory manifesto promises to crack down on social media sites ‘to protect the vulnerable and give people confidence to use the internet without fear of abuse, criminality or exposure to horrific content’.
When the Mail found social media links to terror manuals following the Westminster atrocity, theresa May warned internet giants ‘must do more’ to stop extremist material being easily available online.
the Prime Minister’s spokesman said at the time: ‘We don’t want this material to appear in the first place. the fight against terrorism and hate speech has to be a joint one.
‘the Government and security services are doing everything they can. it’s clear that social media companies can and must do more.’
Last night, Google and Facebook removed links reported by the Mail. on twitter, the links to is terror manuals found by the Mail were not removed because they were posted by an anti-radicalisation organisation.
A Google spokesman said: ‘We remove links to illegal content from our search results as soon as we are notified.’
Facebook said: ‘ there is no place for terrorists or content that promotes terrorism on Facebook. We remove it as soon as we become aware of it.’
twitter said in the last half of 2016 it suspended 376,890 accounts for violations related to promotion of terrorism.