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Islamic State To Chicago: 'We Are In Your Streets'
Investor's Business Daily ^ | August 25, 2014 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 08/25/2014 4:57:43 PM PDT by raptor22

Jihad In America: Terroristic tweets underscore the Islamic State's global reach. It has an army of Western passport holders, and an open southern border to cross. It's not only coming to the U.S.; it's already here.

Slain journalist James Foley studied his craft in the Chicago area, earning a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. For a time he was a teacher in the Cook County Jail boot camp program. He was familiar with the streets of Chicago. So, apparently, is the Islamic State that beheaded him.

An anonymous tweet has an attached photo showing a message written in Arabic. The note is dated June 20 and is being held up in front of the Old Republic building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Dubbed the Magnificent Mile, a shopping mecca, Michigan Avenue is another symbol of what, from a radical Islamist perspective, is wrong with Western culture and civilization.

The text reads: "We are in your state, we are in your cities, we are in your streets, you are our goals anywhere." It adds the hashtag #AmessagefromISIStoUS.

Certainly Islamic State has proved adept at using social media to threaten its future targets and recruit sympathizers and members.

It would be easy to dismiss this as a stunt with no real significance, except that it echoes promises that Islamic State and its sympathizers have already made, including to fly their black flag over the White House, currently occupied by another former Chicago resident, President Obama. Also attached to this tweet is a photo of the White House.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chicago; foley; globaljihad; ibd; ibdisil; ibdisis; illinois; isil; isis; islamicstate; jamesfoley; jihad; jihadinamerica; terroristthreat; waronterror
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1 posted on 08/25/2014 4:57:44 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22

When are they in season?


2 posted on 08/25/2014 5:01:03 PM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: raptor22

With all the violence, corruption and decay in the city of Chicago, how is anyone going to know if it was a terror attack or just another day in Chi town?


3 posted on 08/25/2014 5:02:16 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: raptor22

Is this really any surprise? Who does not realize they are already here. It is not like they would have a hard time getting across the border.

Heck, ten-year-olds are walking right in unnaccompanied buy an adult.


4 posted on 08/25/2014 5:02:43 PM PDT by BJungNan (Spend yesterday's money good, today's money ok. Never spend tomorrow's money)
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To: raptor22
ISIS is in Sh!tcagO?

Whew. That is close. But at least they haven't yet gotten into America!

5 posted on 08/25/2014 5:03:25 PM PDT by Gritty (To remain free, a people need the spirit of liberty. Once lost, there's no easy roads back.-Mk Steyn)
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To: raptor22

We are in your state, we are in your cities, we are in your streets, you are our goals anywhere.”

300 million guns plus in the united states in private hands, bring it on MF
Your mother will surrender when we get thru with you


6 posted on 08/25/2014 5:04:18 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: raptor22
Dubbed the Magnificent Mile, a shopping mecca

Interesting choice of words.....

7 posted on 08/25/2014 5:05:14 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: raptor22

They are in every university and.foment anti- semitism in our gullible Leftists on campus, both students and professors.


8 posted on 08/25/2014 5:07:11 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Tzimisce

Got any headless corpses in Chicago?


9 posted on 08/25/2014 5:07:15 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog (IMPEACH THE TRAITOR --- IMPEACH THE TRAITOR --- IMPEACH THE TRAITOR)
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To: BJungNan

They were coming in droves when I was in college many years ago. . . . education paid for and not by the U.S.(at least that is what was inferred). I don’t think they left.


10 posted on 08/25/2014 5:08:20 PM PDT by Maudeen ("End Times Warrior - Sinner Saved by Grace")
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To: Nachum; markomalley; Clairity; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


11 posted on 08/25/2014 5:08:37 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: fivecatsandadog

other than Rahm Emmanuel?


12 posted on 08/25/2014 5:09:35 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: raptor22

Is this the big announcement today?

Hardly! LOL!


13 posted on 08/25/2014 5:10:31 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Under Obama.....


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14 posted on 08/25/2014 5:10:37 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: raptor22

Stay out of the south side or you may not make it out.

Syria ain’t got nothing on the hood.


15 posted on 08/25/2014 5:18:20 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Thanks, Obama!


16 posted on 08/25/2014 5:23:38 PM PDT by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: himno hero
When are they in season?

Not until the Obungler is out of office, if indeed he decides to leave office in 2017.

17 posted on 08/25/2014 5:24:41 PM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero played a fiddle, while Obama plays a "flute")
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To: Grampa Dave; granite; GreenFreeper; grjr21; I got the rope; IchBinEinBerliner; jaredt112; JayB; ...

IBD EDITORIAL PING


18 posted on 08/25/2014 5:25:48 PM PDT by raptor22 (Follow me on Twitter @gerfingerpoken or facebook.com/danielsobieski)
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To: raptor22

They’re here, hmm? Well, I just hope my little heart going pitty-pat in terror doesn’t mess up my sight picture. Pray the cops catch you first, boys.


19 posted on 08/25/2014 5:31:59 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: raptor22

I have been saying for a month or so now, this 9/11 will probably be “interesting”. Not looking forward to it.


20 posted on 08/25/2014 5:35:19 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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