Amazon.com, the Seattle-based Internet retail giant, had until recently been offering four different issues of the English-language IS magazine Dabiq, aimed at recruiting Western jihadists.
The magazines were being sold in paperback form on Amazon sites in the UK, US, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
Amazon, however, says it has withdrawn the product.
The magazine is published by Al Hayat Media Centre, the media arm of IS, and is described by the group as “a periodical magazine focusing on the issues of tawhid (unity), manhaj (truth-seeking), hijrah (migration), jihad (holy war) and jama'ah (community)."
The group’s website also suggests that each issue might contain photo reports, current events, and informative articles on matters related to ISIL.
Among the issues reportedly available on Amazon was its ninth issue, called 'They Plot and Allah Plots', referring to the central feature of the magazine, which argues that Islamic State supporters should not fear any plans to defeat them since Allah controls the world. The issue focuses on legitimacy; it questions that of its enemies in Syria and the surrounding Arab nations while attempting to establish its own, with pieces on the importance of jihad.
According to the Clarion Project, a website dedicated to exposing the dangers of Islamic extremism, the issue ran lengthy segments admitting to and justifying sex slavery. It threatened to sell US First Lady Michelle Obama into sexual slavery for a third of a dinar.
The seventh issue, for example, entitled 'From Hypocrisy to Apostasy', begins with a declaration of war against Japan. It then boasts about the group's murder of a Jordanian pilot by immolation.
The sixth issue of Dabiq is called "Al-Qa'idah of Waziristan: A Testimony From Within." This issue begins by taking responsibility for the terrorist attack in Sydney that killed two at St. Martin's place and again calls on the Islamic State's supporters worldwide to carry out killings of Westerners whenever and wherever they can without revealing their intentions by discussing them.
The publication of the magazine was launched in 2014. The name of the magazine is taken from the area named Dabiq, in the northern countryside of Syria.
This place was mentioned in a hadith describing some of the events of the Malahim (which is sometimes referred to as Armageddon in English), according to the publisher’s website.
