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"Every Muslim should get out of his house, find a crusader, and kill him." New #ISIS mag calls for attacks in West. http://t.co/K2yx6Nu9hu —

Stewart Bell (@StewartBellNP) October 12, 2014

Introducing the latest ISIS video, an on-screen narrator wearing a baseball cap explains that “the first group of volunteers for jihad in the path of Allah has graduated.”

Standing in front of a young boy holding the group’s notorious black flag, the narrator explains that there are three stages of the training process.

The first of these, he says, is “physical fitness and strength.”

The camera then cuts to a long line of recruits standing in the sand in front of two military-style tents.

In a bizarre ritual, a man wearing a khaki T-shirt proceeds to make his way down the line and high-kick each recruit in the chest.

He finishes by striking his knee into the body of the final student.

The segment finishes with the recruits shouting “Allahu akbar,” or God is great, and “Islamic State is here to stay”.

In the following clip, which focuses on “weapons training,” the group of balaclava-wearing recruits are shown sitting cross-legged on the floor of a large room.

A man at the front of the room, also wearing a balaclava, shows them how to strip down and then reassemble a Kalashnikov, though, in a detail which suggests ISIS’ tutors still have some work to do, the clip has been speeded up to make the drill appear more impressive.

The film finishes with a sermon from a portly, bespectacled sheikh, who promises the recruits they will leave Iraq’s battlefields as “martyrs.”