Beijing: Islamic State has been recruiting far and wide for members to join its ranks on the battlefields of Iraq and Syria or elsewhere. Now those efforts are extending to China. The group recently posted a digital recording of a new chant in Mandarin Chinese that calls for Muslims to "wake up" and "take up weapons to fight". The chant is typical of many others released by the group, also called ISIS or ISIL. The chant was posted online by Al Hayat Media Centre, the foreign-language media division of the Islamic State, according to an assessment Monday by the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks the propaganda of jihadi groups. The chant, or nasheed, is an...
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