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                       •  Ease of use and deployment.            Digital     Technology        and

                       •  Low cost (Kinkar, n.d.).               Intellectual Invasion
                         Adam Hoffman in the article             The  rapid  developments  in
                       “The  Islamic  State’s  Use  of           communication technology led to

                       Social Media; Terrorism’s Siren
                       Song in the Digital Age”, said,           a parallel development in the form
                                                                 and  content  of  media  messages,
                             This use of social media

                             has  enabled  “ISIS”  to            which  contributed  to  increasing
                                                                 the  audience’s  interaction  together
                             present  its  narrative
                             apart  from  traditional            and achieved immediate resonance
                                                                 so that it became possible to measure
                             media  (print,  television,
                             radio, design) the image            the  negative  or  positive  impact
                                                                 of the contents (Hossein, 2016).
                             it wishes to see reflected
                                                                     What  is  this  technology?
                             in global  public  opinion          How  is  it  transformed  from  a

                             (Hoffman, 2016).
                         This  historical  background            platform  for  disseminating
                       between the past and the current          knowledge  and  communication

                       age  answered  many  questions            among  people,  which  is  an
                                                                                    that
                                                                                             allows
                                                                 environment
                       raised in the introduction of the         individuals  and  groups  to
                       research  about  the  emergence           communicate  their  voice  and
                       of  intellectual  extremism,  its
                       development, and sources, leading         the voice of their communities
                                                                 to the entire world, to a network
                       to the era of modern technology           that injects concepts, values, and

                       and  how  it  was  exploited  in          thoughts  that  suit  those  in
                       expanding.  What  concerns  us            charge  of  it  in  the  process  of
                       is the intellectual extremism that        systematically  penetrating  minds

                       we have seen on some social media,        with soft war tools?
                       which has historical origins that            Henry Kissinger said,
                       were revealed by the emergence                   The  revolution  in  the

                       of  the  Kharijites,  separatist                 world  of  communications
                       sects,  and  their  issuance  of                 and  information  is  the
                       many       extremist      Fatwas
                       (verdicts) (Shorbagy, 2018).                     first  in  history  that
                                                                        brought  such  a  large
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