Twitter and Facebook have both been blocked in Iraq after the Islamist insurgent group ISIS thanked Allah for social networking.

The ISIS are known to be fierce fighters, but they are also known to be as prolific on social media as they are ferocious on the battlefield.

The hardline Sunni group is heading to Baghdad which has prompted the Iranian Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani to issue a call to arms to all Shi'ite men. ISIS considers Shi'ites to be infidels.


A Kuwaiti news agency has suggested that the Ministry of Communications shut down the sites to hamper the ISIS from communicating.

The image below is being circulated on Twitter.



On Tuesday, an ISIS fighter using the handle Soldiers of Iraq and the Levant (this is what ISIS stands for) tweeted:

“Praise be to Allah, who gave Twitter to the mujahideen so that they may share their joys and not have to listen to the BBC, al-Arabia, Al-Jazeera.”