Is it possible he is cracking? His G20 performance and now this?
Maybe the pushback is getting in his head. He called out both Trump (the reference to “winning”) and Cruz (wanting a religious test for refugees from Syria) from the G20. At least two psychiatrists have said he has Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder and one of the features is they cannot take criticism.
Trump made the video asking if Obama is insane. That was an isolated clip, not connected to an interview or speech it appears. Cruz has come out and said he does not want to protect the US. Now perhaps they are trying to get into his head?
As if Philippines hasn’t had an ISIS/Muslim problem..
Abu Sayyaf, a Philippines-based group dedicated to carving out an Islamic province in the country, pledged allegiance to ISIS over the summer. (It may have had vague ties with Al Qaeda at some point in the preceding decades.)
“We pledge to obey [Baghdadi] on anything which our heart’s desire or not and to value him more than anyone else,” Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon read in a YouTube video. “We will not take any emir other than him unless we see in him any obvious act of disbelief that could be questioned by Allah in the hereafter.”
The group subsequently kidnapped two German hostages, who they threatened to behead if Germany didn’t pay a ransom and denounce actions against ISIS. The pair was later released, reportedly after the militants received about $5 million in ransom.