Emojihadi

It’s only natural when your group’s sentiment can’t be conveyed with a single emoji.

Did you ever think “emojis are fine, but I could really go with just a bit more Islamist spice to it” or “How do I praise Caliphate and declare war on infidels all in the same short picture message?” — Well, then, dear reader your woes are over because we now have an anwer to both of these questions, and it’s not “Call CIA, hand yourself in”, it’s (the long awaited) new set of stickers for Telegram.

A sampling of which you can find on the left.

Militant ISIS group have been seen using Telegram for a long while already, making use of it’s loose registration policy and state-of-the-art encryption of all messages.

And for one IS are definitely setting a trend of dangerous people needing to share dangerous messages in pictures.

Use of the icons has become extremely common among these various extremist and militant groups on Telegram. It is hard to visit the groups’ channels without seeing them across the social media platform.

ISIS loyalists were seen using a series of icons depicting beheadings and a slew of other macabre scenes in their communications, while Hezbollah’s stickers brandish “a proud enemy of Israel and USA”, whatever horror you ascribe yourself to you’ll be catered. It’s no wonder Telegram is so popular among terrorists