`` They 're reading the messages , they 're hearing the messages -- not just from us but from the hundreds of Islamic clerics who have said that this is a perversion of Islam , from the hundreds of Islamic scholars who have said the same thing . '' Anti-ISIS messaging campaign is working , State Department official says . `` Young people who are not joining because we have somehow interceded , '' he says . The U.S. has been trying to get the Islamic State group on its knees for more than a year.
Anti-ISIS messaging campaign is working , State Department official says . `` Young people who are not joining because we have somehow interceded , '' he says . The U.S. has been trying to get the Islamic State group on its knees for more than a year.