Shumukh al-Islam

The forum was created in 2007 by Nabil Amdouni,^[4] it was created as a way to promote recruitment and illicit tutorials.^[5] The forum is not as popular as before, but still online, and many have switched from using the forum to just using apps like WhatsApp and Telegram.^[6]

In 2011, a forum member under the alias "Umar al-Basrawi" on the forum made death threats and assassination threats to/about David Letterman for mocking Ilyas Kashmiri's death,^[7] which a couple days later, Letterman would make jokes about the threats on the Late Show with David Letterman.^[8]

Though the forum has never given an actual stance on if it has a parent group, the forum has shown support to the Islamic State,^[9] Al-Qaeda,^[10] and splinter groups of Al-Qaeda like Al-Nusra front.^[11]