Jihadist groups hail Trumps travel ban as a victory
Source: Washington Post
Jihadist groups on Sunday celebrated the Trump administrations ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, saying the new policy validates their claim that the United States is at war with Islam.
Comments posted to pro-Islamic State social media accounts predicted that President Trumps executive order would persuade American Muslims to side with the extremists. One posting hailed the U.S. president as the best caller to Islam, while others predicted that Trump would soon launch a new war in the Middle East.
[Islamic State leader Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi has the right to come out and inform Trump that banning Muslims from entering America is a blessed ban, said one posting to a pro-Islamic State channel on Telegram, a social-media platform. The writer compared the executive order to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, which Islamic militant leaders at the time hailed as a blessed invasion that ignited anti-Western fervor across the Islamic world.
Several postings suggested that Trump was fulfilling the predictions of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American born al-Qaeda leader and preacher who famously said that the West would eventually turn against its Muslim citizens. Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
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riversedge
(70,299 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)a response from Jihadist? And if they don't comply, they have a black hat operation waiting in the wings?
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)But everyone thinks I'm a conspiracy theorist.
I say just because they are plotting against us doesn't mean they aren't plotting a conspiracy... or something like that.
Initech
(100,102 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)still incite the others to arms.
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)tclambert
(11,087 posts)with G-hadists. (Those are like reggae musicians or something, right Steve?)"