More than the terrorism, the radicalism and the hate speech, what truly sets Al-Qaeda apart as anachronistic and full-bore loony is that they’re publishing an English-language magazine in 2010.
Haven’t they heard the industry’s dying? Maybe they have, and they’ve come to help it along, releasing the glossy equivalent of a suicide bomb. Or maybe they are really so divorced from reality they think people still read magazines. We don’t. Not unless it’s about celebrity drama or crazed sex poodles, and that’s mostly because those rags are next to the candy and batteries in supermarkets.
Al-Qaeda’s Inspire isn’t an impulse item – it has to be sought out, by people who think America and Israel are Great Satans. And what a terrible title! For a publication so virulently anti-Western, with a name like that it could easily by sandwiched between O and Modern Bride.
A peek inside the Summer 1431 table of contents makes the aforementioned magazines less embarrassing to be seen reading, henceforth and forever. “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom”? Is this with her permission? Another article advises brothers in the Jihad “Don’t be sad”. For once, I can agree with radical Islamic propaganda. The world’s been through enough – it doesn’t need Emo terrorists. Guyliner totally clashes with headscarves and AK-47s.
