{"id":9881,"date":"2026-08-28T13:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9881"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:26:12","slug":"islamic-state-wildfire-radicalisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/08\/28\/islamic-state-wildfire-radicalisation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Islamic State&#8217; wildfire radicalisation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;LBC has infiltrated an online forum used by Islamic State supporters to share detailed instructions on starting wildfires, exhausting emergency services and avoiding detection by police and forensic investigators, just weeks after millions of people across Britain were sent an emergency warning over the country&#8217;s extreme wildfire risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mu5dy4xwoc2h\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreibucbmybtrmylf4tefptuoipn6t7fpvyjmwj4tvutiduuq7zupmiy\"><p lang=\"en\">This, from @lbc.co.uk\u2019s EJ Ward, is a significant report for those of us following online \u2018radicalisation\u2018:Islamic State supporters urged to start wildfires and \u2018overwhelm\u2019 emergency services in chilling arson attack guide www.lbc.co.uk\/article\/isla&#8230;<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mu5dy4xwoc2h?ref_src=embed\">2026-08-28T12:20:59.359Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;LBC has infiltrated an online forum used by Islamic State supporters to share detailed instructions on starting wildfires, exhausting emergency services and avoiding detection by police and forensic investigators, just weeks after millions of people across Britain were sent an emergency warning over the country&#8217;s extreme wildfire risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,187],"tags":[183,1154,189],"class_list":["post-9881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamic-state-4","category-radicalisation","tag-islamic-state","tag-online-magazines","tag-radicalisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9882,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions\/9882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}