BEIJING (China) \u2014\u00a0Two weeks after first known execution of a Chinese hostage by ISIS, extremist group Islamic State has published a war song in Chinese Mandarin that calls on the country\u2019s Muslims to take up arms.<\/p>\n
The group recently posted a digital recording<\/a><\/span> of a new chant in Mandarin Chinese that calls for Muslims to \u201cwake up\u201d and \u201ctake up weapons to fight.\u201d The chant is typical of many others released by the group, also called ISIS<\/a>or ISIL.<\/p>\n The four-minute song<\/a><\/span> was released Al-Hayat Media Center, Islamic State\u2019s media arm, and distributed through Twitter and messaging app Telegram\u00a0on Sunday,\u00a0according to an assessment\u00a0<\/a><\/span>on Monday by the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks the propaganda of jihadist groups.<\/p>\n Like many of the group\u2019s chants, known as nasheeds, the track is slickly produced and hypnotically infectious, with lyrics that extol death in service of Islam.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are Mujahid, our shameless enemy panics before us,\u201d a male voice, enhanced with a digital echo, sings in the chorus. \u00a0\u201cOur dream is to die fighting on this battlefield.. Wake up Muslim brother, now is the time to wake up\u201d.<\/p>\n It is unclear who exactly ISIS is trying to reach with this almost hypnotically infectious track. Usual recruitment methods are directed at China’s Uighur separatist movement, but that group prefers to speak a Turkic language totally different from Mandarin, highlights a report<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n