FuzzyLumpkins
06-21-2016, 02:34 AM
A recent video published by Al Battar, an unofficial propaganda arm of IS, featured Donald Trump responding to the tragedy in Orlando and calling Obama's leadership into question. Observers say IS is counting on such backlash against Muslim populations, furthering their narrative of a ”war on Islam” and providing potential recruits.
“The crusaders claim to bear the standard of ‘liberty’ and ‘justice’ for all the oppressed peoples of the world, when in fact their tyranny knows no limits when directed against the Muslim ummah,” IS wrote in the most recent edition of their Dabiq propaganda magazine, released shortly after the Brussels attacks in March. The ummah refers to the global community of Muslims.
As part of its campaign against Western values, IS aims to provoke a strong military response, including an uptick in airstrikes that kill innocent civilians, in order to paint the West as careless with Muslim lives. It also seeks to embroil the US in a ground war in Iraq and Syria, which would serve their end-of-days narrative that the fight is the prophesied apocalyptic battle of Dabiq, a clash between Islamic armies and “Romans,” or Westerners, in northern Syria that will prompt the beginning of judgment day, as mentioned in a hadith attributed to the prophet Muhammad.
“The Last Hour would not come until the Romans would land at al-A'maq or in Dabiq. An army consisting of the best [soldiers] of the people of the earth at that time will come from Medina [to counteract them],” Abu Huraira, a companion of the prophet Muhammad who is seen by Sunnis as a strongly reliable narrator, cited him as saying.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2016/0620/The-other-reason-ISIS-is-cheering-after-Orlando-attacks
Also note the use of Hadith to promote violence and jihadism.
“The crusaders claim to bear the standard of ‘liberty’ and ‘justice’ for all the oppressed peoples of the world, when in fact their tyranny knows no limits when directed against the Muslim ummah,” IS wrote in the most recent edition of their Dabiq propaganda magazine, released shortly after the Brussels attacks in March. The ummah refers to the global community of Muslims.
As part of its campaign against Western values, IS aims to provoke a strong military response, including an uptick in airstrikes that kill innocent civilians, in order to paint the West as careless with Muslim lives. It also seeks to embroil the US in a ground war in Iraq and Syria, which would serve their end-of-days narrative that the fight is the prophesied apocalyptic battle of Dabiq, a clash between Islamic armies and “Romans,” or Westerners, in northern Syria that will prompt the beginning of judgment day, as mentioned in a hadith attributed to the prophet Muhammad.
“The Last Hour would not come until the Romans would land at al-A'maq or in Dabiq. An army consisting of the best [soldiers] of the people of the earth at that time will come from Medina [to counteract them],” Abu Huraira, a companion of the prophet Muhammad who is seen by Sunnis as a strongly reliable narrator, cited him as saying.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2016/0620/The-other-reason-ISIS-is-cheering-after-Orlando-attacks
Also note the use of Hadith to promote violence and jihadism.