An image from the anti-Islamic State coloring book produced by Missouri-based Really Big Comics. (screen capture)
An American company has produced a coloring book for adults that displays the brutality of the Islamic State, and is “designed to help citizens understand the real truth” about the jihadist movement.
Really Big Coloring Books, based in Missouri, says the coloring book aims “to educate and teach youth and adults about Radical Islam.”
The images inside the book, which costs $7.99, include grisly drawings of beheadings and mutilations by the group. They appear alongside scenes of imagined attacks on Sydney, Paris and New York that show the destruction of world-famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and Sydney Opera House.
“The book is the most benign way to view this topic in real life, excluding the hideous pictures on the internet,” says the blurb accompanying the online sale of the book. “Designed to help citizens understand the real truth — in black and white — comic book detail. With a glossary of terms.”
An image from the anti-Islamic State coloring book produced by Missouri-based Really Big Comics, showing jihadist terrorists beheading a prisoner. (screen capture)
Really Big Coloring Books’ Wayne Bell said the coloring book was not for children, claiming it is “completely indifferent to political correctness,’ the Daily Mail reported.
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“The highly controversial anti-ISIS Coloring Book Comic has proven to be very accurate in its description and education regarding radical Islamic terror,” he said, according to the Mail.
An image from the anti-Islamic State coloring book produced by Missouri-based Really Big Comics, showing children indoctrinated into IS. (screen capture)
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