Fighters of the Islamic State are already renowned for their use of social media, but they aren't exactly the first group that comes to mind when one thinks of fans of internet cats. ISIS terrorists use Twitter to share photos and videos of their gruesome beheadings and daily pogroms against Christians and religious minorities, but LOLCats?

The Twitter account @ISILCats is just that: a Twitter account called "Islamic State of Cat" with photos of fuzzy kittens lounging around guns and ammo. The description for the account? "I Can Haz Islamic State Plz." Tweets call the kittens 'mewjahids' (a pun on mujahideen, a self-descriptor favored by terrorist Muslim fighters.)

No mewjahid nooo, no Ticklez pleaz. pic.twitter.com/t8GsW8HBUU — Islamic State of Cat (@ISILCats) July 18, 2014

The images are mostly from the city of Raqquah, where ISIS bases its operations - although it's unclear whether the photos are actually tweeted from there, or from a supporter somewhere else.

It is clear that this is just another way that ISIS seeks to normalize jihadi behavior for Westerners. Their sophisticated use of social media outreach includes the hashtag #AllEyesonISIS.

Twitter may be cracking down on graphic imagery shared by Islamic State fighters, but a more mundane and insidious type of propaganda is also being spread online: pictures of jihadists playing with kittens.

I iz play hide&seek with my mewjahid :) pic.twitter.com/ADRGGGwqDF — Islamic State of Cat (@ISILCats) July 28, 2014

My Mewjahid protectz me pic.twitter.com/t4Xci8Jfpi — Islamic State of Cat (@ISILCats) July 8, 2014

"If you don't confront it, the softer postings on Facebook and Twitter will seek to normalise the idea of going to fight in Iraq and Syria," Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadhan Foundation told The Daily Telegraph. "IS want to say that it is a noble cause and that it is normal, but we collectively as Muslims have to make clear that it is not normal."

The chilling beheading of American journalist James Foley Youtube video released by ISIS Monday featured a black-clad terrorist whom many believe had a British accent - so the fear of jihadist recruitment in Western countries is not as far-fetched as it sounds - Lolcats or no.