covers an incoherent scene centering around ISIS. Here are two examples, one centering on a sort of faux denial, the other injecting personality (and presumably a desire for notoriety) into the mix:
Hoping to stand out, the Lebanese Tony Khalifa decided to fake a beheading on air just to prove that it can be done. Personally, Khalifa believes that ISIS brutally kills people all the time, but he finds the most recent videos, especially James Foley and other Westerners’, to have been tampered with. Strengthening his doubts were the interviews with the families of the victims, who appeared too calm, “like their children were still alive.”
El-Mehwar TV, on the other hand, got itself a hacker with a soul patch, wearing a jacket over bare skin. He claimed to have hacked a jihadi forum (which they pretended was ISIS’s official website) and server, and to have watched the unedited version of the 21 beheadings, where the victims were screaming despite their mouths being mostly closed and that there was an un-ISIS-like woman on a crane and an American-looking film crew. “I can tell the nationality (of a person) from their appearance” he explained.
Not really too different from the conspiracy theories we see in the West, from Lunar Landing denial to the personalities often seen in the UFO / Roswell conspiracies. People will see what aligns best with their ideologies, their psychological needs, and the occasional psychosis, especially when the incident is difficult to personally research and/or understand.
