ISIS organises its own Jihad Olympics

​Mosul: Unlike Islamic State's routine activities, including public executions and enforcing rules and regulations on their prisoners, the dreaded terror outfit has come up with a new side of their image by organising a range of games -- their very own -- Jihad Olympics in the city of Tal Afar in Iraq.

Newly released images by the terror group show children as young as five participating in a series of games. The photographs were posted on the social micro-blogging website Twitter by Terrormonitor. This shows the terrorist group has been attempting to portray a very different image. The terrorist group apparently begged people in the area to join the 'fun' and take part in games, including tug-of-war and musical chairs.

Dissidents revealed that the regime is desperate to portray life as normal under ISIS in Mosul, Iraq and Raqqa, Syria, according to the reports. Children don a selection of British football shirts as they compete against each other in the miniature Olympics put on by the terrorist group.

Large crowds look on and support the young competitors, who apparently got to go home with bags of sweets if they won. ISIS is more widely known for extreme acts of brutality, including public beheadings, amputating limbs and stoning people.

But locals were encouraged to come and watch the unusually light-hearted spectacle, which was apparently staged in the Nineveh Province. It is reported that older people were also encouraged to join in on the 'fun' but felt obliged to let the Jihadists win for fear of repercussions.

The images, which appeared on Twitter this month, emerge as the Obama administration revealed ISIS traffic on the social media site has plunged 45 per cent in the past two years. The steep drop comes as the US and its allies have countered messages of jihadi glorification with a flood of online images about suffering and enslavement at the hands of the extremist organization.

Among the images is a teddy bear with Arabic writing and messages saying ISIS 'slaughters childhood,' 'kills innocence', 'lashes purity' and 'humiliates children.' In another image, a male hand covering a female's mouth, saying ISIS 'deprives woman her voice'.

Yet another shows a woman in a black niqab (veil), bloody tears coming from a bruised eye, and the caption: 'Women under ISIS. Enslaved. Battered. Beaten. Humiliated. Flogged.' US officials cite the drop in Twitter traffic as a sign of progress toward eliminating propaganda they blame for inspiring attacks around the world.

Source: Agencies