{"id":334393,"date":"2017-11-10T16:36:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-radio-station-hijacked-to-play-isis-recruitment-song\/"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T15:36:32","slug":"swedish-radio-station-hijacked-to-play-isis-recruitment-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/swedish-radio-station-hijacked-to-play-isis-recruitment-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Radio Station Hijacked to Play Isis Recruitment Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>A Swedish radio station played an Isis propaganda tune after its frequency was hijacked by a pirate transmitter.<\/p>\n<p>Malm\u00f6 residents who tuned into popular radio station Mix Megapol at around 8.30am on Friday suddenly found themselves listening to Isis recruitment song &#8216;For the sake of Allah&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The song was played after the radio station&#8217;s local airwaves were hijacked by an unknown offender, Bauer Media, which owns the station, confirmed after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/24malmo.se\/2017\/11\/10\/extra-se-isis-otacka-varvningskupp-i-malmo\/\" target=\"_blank\">24Malm\u00f6.se<\/a>\u00a0first reported the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will report this incident to the police and to the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority,&#8221; marketing director Jakob Gravestam said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed to 24Malm\u00f6.se that the three-minute song \u2013 with lyrics trying to tempt Westerners into joining Isis with promises about maidens waiting in paradise for fighters \u2013 was played for around 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is of course very serious, especially as they played a song about recruitment for Isis,&#8221; Gravestam added, admitting that it was very difficult to stop anyone with a pirate transmitter from hijacking a radio frequency.<\/p>\n<p>Mix Megapol is a commercial station which normally plays hits from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/swedish-radio-station-hijacked-to-play-isis-recruitment-song\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Swedish radio station played an Isis propaganda tune after its frequency was hijacked by a pirate transmitter. Malm\u00f6 residents who tuned into popular radio station Mix Megapol at around 8.30am on Friday suddenly found themselves listening to Isis recruitment song &#8216;For the sake of Allah&#8217;. The song was played after the radio station&#8217;s local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-334393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}