Observation about Jihadi groups...

Asslamo Allaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh,

Someone was showing me videos of their little girl (3 years old or so) and they had taken the videos and added all sorts of effects (like flying, disappearing etc) so while I watched out I asked the technical details as to which applications they used to add the effects to the videos (shot on the mobile) etc.

This person is a technical Guru and it took them hours and hours of playing around to get grainy, smudgy rudimentary videos.

When I look around the Internet (youtube in particular) I see many professional and competent Muslims struggling editing videos and adding effects, they work on it diligently until they have 1-2 effects which they Master and then they recycle it, see HanafiFiqhChannel etc.

Yet when you see Jihadi videos, they are superbly shot (choreographed), expertly edited and dubbed with excellent subtitles? And then the circumstances around the certain episodes are incredulous, consider Boko Haram:

1. Abducted 200 girls
2. Transported them to a remote location (somehow managed to hide that)
3. Dressed them up in Abayas
4. Gave backdrops of Flags and guys with AK47's
5. Superbly crafted video messages

All in a developing country with rudimentary technical skills, patchy media.

Then I look at TTP (Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan), their PDF, magazine, videos, press conferences are SO FAR ahead of the rest of the Deobandees of Pakistan that its unreal! In a country where Deobandees have major resources and expertise, a movement surrounded in secrecy and obscurity, hiding from authorities and being hunted down is able to issue superbly crafted press releases (in Urdu, English and Arabic), do great media Interviews and their magazines and pdf’s are a million times better than any other Deobandi production in the country.

Why is that?

Consider one example in Pakistan of Jamiatur-Rasheed (Karachi) which has a university and attracts the best of Talent in their Darul-uloom and their Charity, been running 2 newspapers for the last 15 years and employ the best of Talent (pay top money) as Mufti Abu Lubaba Shah Mansoor (HA) insists on it and they are also Jihadees

Look at the quality of their output compared to TTP.

Shaykh (Mufti) Rasheed Ahmed Ludhyanwi (RA) was a stickler for quality and stuck with the same printers for his works due to superior prood-reading (see foreword of Ahsanul-Fatawaa).

How is TTP come in the last few years and absolutely hammer every Deobandi Darul-uloom and institute in the country in terms of professionalism and quality?

Take a look at Haqqforum (Urdu Deobandi forum) for examples of videos on Kashmir, ideology of Pakistan etc...I mean these videos are mind boglingly good!

The same average kid of India/Pakistan is also Deobandi, Barelwee or whatever and also making videos of their Ulamah, doing pdf's creating websites, blogs You have to literally witness some of the Urdu output to compare the contrast in quality.

Boko-Haram is just Hollywood! 200 girls transported around the country, dressed in Abayas and superbly good quality videos taken in a country with not so developed media

And when these videos are beamed across TV screens they are coreographed in a way that an Indian Hindu from Tamil-Nadu to a a White Supermist in Texas is instantly able to recognise, identify and loathe them.

There are tons of amateur youtubers around the world and they cannot “consistently” produce such good quality output!

I am Sorry but I don't understand this...

There is a typo in the name of Boko Haram, its actually

Boko = Haram