article_snippet: The Islamic State has released a new propaganda video showing two deaf fighters speaking in sign language and urging more Westerners to join the terror group.
article_snippet: a new propaganda video showing two deaf fighters speaking in sign language and urging more Westerners to join the terror group is titled 'From Who Excused [sic]
article_snippet: Not Excused' - suggesting that disability is no excuse for not serving for ISIS.
article_snippet: In the five minute clip the two men, who are deaf-mutes and brothers, are shown working as traffic police in Iraq's second city Mosul, which has been under ISIS control since last summer.
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article_snippet: Two deaf-mute brothers who claim to be fighting for ISIS in Iraq have taken part in the terror group's latest propaganda video, in an attempt to recruit more people with disabilities to fight for the terror group .
article_snippet: The footage, which features the Islamic State flag in the top right hand corner, also shows Two deaf-mute brothers who claim to be fighting for ISIS in Iraq working for the traffic police in Mosul, in an attempt to depict an normal life as part of the terror group's Caliphate .
article_snippet: Speaking in sign language with English and Arabic subtitles, one of the men says: 'I am a deaf mute who works in the traffic police in the Islamic State with my brother Abu Abdur-Rahman. '
article_snippet: Alex Kassirer, a researcher at Flashpoint Intelligence, who spoke to NBC News, said the video 'represents an attempt by the group to recruit other physically or otherwise impaired individuals, as well as demonstrates the multifaceted responsibilities of those in the video ' ranks.'
article_snippet: ISIS's ability to recruit western jihadis using online propaganda films and ISIS monthly magazine, Dabiq, is well documented, and the films often feature fighters speaking about the films daily lives, in an attempt to present life under the extremist Caliphate in a positive light.
article_snippet: However this is thought to be the first film which deliberately features disabled people in an attempt to recruit more from Europe and the West.
highlights_snippet: Men claim to be deaf mute brothers working as traffic police in Mosul, Iraq .
  