The I'lam Foundation (Arabic: مؤسسة إعلام, romanized: Mo'āssasat Iʻlām) is a multi-language media center of the Islamic State that provides content in the languages of,[2][3][4] English, French, Uzbek, Hindi, Arabic, Malayalam, Turkish, Pashto, Persian, Spanish, Indonesian, German, Bosnian, Hausa, Albanian, Tajik, Uyghur, Kurdish, Somali, Amharic, Swahili, Bengali, and Maldivian like the media center Al-Hayat Media Center.[5][6][7]
I'lam Foundation | |
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أساس إعلام | |
Dates of operation | 2018– June 19 2024[1] |
Allegiance | Islamic State |
Funding
I'lam foundation normally gets its funding from outside cryptocurrency donations,[8] mainly from Islamic State supporters from western countries.[9][10]
Usage
ISIS–K has used I'lam foundation in order to fund the Islamic State and ISIS–K using Russian bank networks, they used I'lam foundation to spread awareness about their funding platform.[6][11][12] ISIS–K used I'lam foundation's clear net and dark net website.[7] The IMU has mostly used I'lam foundation for its Uzbek-language platform to spread its propaganda videos.[13][14]
Halummu
Halummu is an English jihadist translation service,[15] translating daily messages, leadership statements, periodicals, and videos created by the Islamic State.[16] It shares its content primarily through Telegram or on ISIS' official website and is the sole English unit operating under the multilingual Fursan al-Tarjuma umbrella.[17]