Image from the Vkontakte community “Islamic State of Donbass and Lugant.”
A series of videos has appeared on VKontakte and YouTube featuring eastern Ukrainian militia in Donetsk and Luhansk, mixed with footage of ISIS militants in Syria and North Caucasian fighters in Russia. The montage has a soundtrack and everybody’s smiling, trading Takbirs (the Arabic expression, “God is Great!”). In the corner of the frame, the videos are stamped with the flag of the Donetsk People’s Republic, plus two crossed Kalashnikovs and the Shahada (an Islamic “testimony”).
These strange videos belong to a phenomenon known as the “Islamic State of the …read more
Source: Global Voices
