ISLAMIC STATE: "WE REMIND MUSLIMS IN THE LANDS OF DISBELIEVERS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF THE COMING DAYS"
BY ROBERT SPENCER
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/12/islamic-state-we-remind-muslims-in-the-lands-of-disbelievers-to-take-advantage-of-the-coming-days;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
“Take advantage of the coming days”? You mean, like, last minute shopping? No, the Islamic State wants Muslims in the West to take advantage of holiday crowds to commit jihad mass murder on the largest possible scale.
“ISIS to Followers: ‘Take Advantage of the Coming Days’ to Strike ‘Gatherings of Infidels’ Like Strasbourg,” by Bridget Johnson, PJ Media, December 21, 2018:
Featuring Strasbourg attacker Chérif Chekatt in the new issue of their official weekly newsletter, ISIS told western jihadists to follow his lead in their home countries as “an unexploded ordnance in your land modifies a thousand operations in our territory.”Read the rest here.
ISIS usually mentions lone-jihadist attacks in the news briefs section of the al-Naba newsletter, but featured Chekatt on page 3 of the newsletter next to the editor’s note. In the first week of October 2017, ISIS gave similar preferential placement to Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, while they were claiming the attack as their own and encouraging jihadists to undertake their own mass shootings….
In the new al-Naba article, the terror group said that even if Chekatt was “killed a martyr… this will not be the last of the attacks… in Europe and America they will not be pleased.”
“We remind Muslims in the lands of kuffaar [disbelievers] to take advantage of the coming days,” ISIS continued. “There are many gatherings of infidels in their festivals… take your war to the Crusaders.”
The top news brief item later in the newsletter focused on President Trump’s announced withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria. The article discussed the U.S. timetable for full pullout, stressing “it will not be slow.”
ISIS noted that Trump’s pullout announcement coincided with Turkey threatening to attack Kurdish “apostates.”…
