The Khilafah Discourse in Online Magazine of ISIS: DABIQ

Abstract

Terrorism has long been a global threat. One of them is the Syrian Islamic State of Iraq or ISIS. ISIS is an organization that empowers its actions through various methods and techniques of media propaganda. Media propaganda is used by ISIS to maintain its existence and strengthen its position. ISIS also uses the media to spread its ideology. ISIS media which use internet platforms in the form of a magazine called Dabiq Online Magazine. This magazine is designed very professionally in terms of content, design, and marketing or distribution. So that content can make readers "affected". The most message campaigned was the urgency of the Khilafah. This study uses Teun Van Djik's critical discourse method to analyze text, cognition and social context in Dabiq Online Magazine, with a locus on the issue of the Khilafah. The result is that when linguistic aspects and related contexts are explained, the pattern is studied to find how ideology is marketed in the text for specific purposes and interests, research shows that the Khilafah discourse voiced by ISIS through Dabiq Online Magazine is not relevant to the Khilafah discourse that voiced in general by Muslims. Even the Khilafah discourse explained by ISIS on Dabiq's media does not explain the meaning of the Khilafah correctly as it is generally accepted and accepted in general terminology in Islam.