An Indian executive based in Bengaluru could be one of the biggest online recruiters for terror group Islamic State, Britain’s Channel 4 News has said, claiming to have unmasked the identity of the “man behind the most influential IS twitter account.”
According to Britain’s Channel 4 News, the man behind the most influential IS Twitter account” is called “Mehdi” and he is an executive in Bengaluru working for an Indian conglomerate .His tweets, written under the name Shami Witness, were seen two million times each month, making him perhaps the most influential Islamic State Twitter account, with over 17,700 followers.
According to news channel, “He spent his mornings, afternoons and evenings sending thousands of tweets of propaganda about Islamic State.” claiming that two thirds of all foreign fighters on Twitter followed him.
The channel further clamis, Two thirds of all foreign fighters on Twitter followed him (Shami Witness). When a fighter’s Twitter account is suspended, he often promoted the new one and urged people to follow it.
In November 2014, the @ShamiWitness tweeted that “May Allah guide, protect, strengthen and expand the Islamic State…Islamic State brought peace, autonomy, zero corruption, low crime rate”.
According to the report channel says the man, on his Face book pages, “regularly shares jokes, funny images and talks about superhero movies, posting pictures of pizza dinners with friends, and Hawaiian parties at work.” He has also spoken out against rape on that account.