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Their agonized screams of a terrorist attack that nobody was there to hear, witness, or stop must have carried for kilometers in the thin air of the Atlas Mountains.
Scandinavian students Maren Ueland, 28, and Louisa Jespersen, 24, who loved the outdoors, came upon four men looking for Westerners to kill as they descended the highest hill in North Africa in December.
After waiting until after dark, the men entered the women's tent brandishing their blades and their mistaken dreams of being Islamic heroes. In a horrifying scenario captured on a cellphone, they attacked Ueland, a Norwegian, and her Danish friend, Jespersen, while they were still in their sleeping bags. They stabbed them until their bodies went limp and then chopped their heads.
The incident in December 2018 was a mindless act of performative violence, like so many others in this era of mass shootings and social media. The killers, who were uneducated and destitute, grew engrossed in the violent Islamic cosmos they saw on their mobile screens and then looked for their own place in it. Their main goal was to win over the Islamic State, become participants in its apocalyptic war, and have their recordings used as propaganda by the organization.
Reality didn't go as planned. Targeting helpless women and the appalling audio quality of the recording managed to go against the norms of a terrorist organization that is not recognized for having any. In addition to refusing to accept the attack and ignoring the Moroccans' oaths of allegiance, the Islamic State did not distribute the video.
Nevertheless, the video became popular. An incident that went unnoticed and unwatched ended up being viewed millions of times by Islamic State sympathizers who did not share the group's selectivity, by gore-obsessed dark-We
b bottom dwellers, and by the morbidly inquisitive.
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However, the audience that the assailants had not anticipated was the most worrying. Within days, networks connected to the far-right and white supremacist movements quickly began to share the one-minute, 16-second recording. Extremists condemned Islam and called for a war of civilizations while posting graphic images of the women's deaths on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites.
And someone on the far right in Norway uploaded a link to his Twitter account with the message, "Look at this footage of the one girl being decapitated alive." "God is stirring up our Germanic men to action. Now that's enough. It suffices."
Far-right organizations criticized the efforts of officials in Norway and Denmark to persuade people to stop spreading the film as a betrayal of race and religion and as the censoring of material that exposed the true nature of Islam.
The fallout made the agony worse for the victim's relatives. On Facebook, their mothers received a barrage of messages. Many of them were condolences, but some of them were acts of shocking cruelty, linking to the video of their daughter's murder and claiming their girls deserved to die.
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