Posted on 03/25/2024 6:39:38 AM PDT by SJackson
The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for Friday’s jihad terror attack in Moscow, in which the death toll is currently 137 and will likely turn out to be many more once the magnitude of the damage is fully assessed. ISIS’ claim, however, has been greeted with widespread skepticism, as the usual suspects in conspiracy paranoia, notably the CIA and Mossad, have been accused on social media of being the real culprits. Yet there is absolutely no reason to discount the Islamic State’s involvement, as a close examination of its claim of responsibility demonstrates.
ISIS issued a statement boasting that “the Islamic State dealt a strong blow to Russia with a bloody attack, the most violent targeting it in years.” It added that “security sources told Amaq Agency that a coordinated attack was launched by Islamic State fighters, on Friday, on a large crowd of Christians in the city of Krasnogorsk on the outskirts of the capital, Moscow.”
Amaq Agency is ISIS’ mouthpiece for its announcements of various jihad activities. In 2019, the State Department declared Amaq a foreign terrorist organization, making it one of the few media outlets that cheer on jihad violence to bear the terrorist designation officially. If the State Department were consistent, the New York Times, the Guardian, Reuters and all the other “news” agencies that publish Hamas propaganda as if it were objective reporting would be designated terrorist organizations as well.
The most noteworthy aspect of the statement, however, is ISIS’ name for its victims: Christians. The statement continued: “The sources added that the attack targeted a mass concert attended by thousands of Christians, inside a music hall located within a large commercial complex in the city.” Did ISIS strike a Christian concert? No, the crowd was there to see a concert by the popular Russian progressive rock group Picnic. So why did ISIS refer to its victims as Christians?
About half of the Russian population identifies itself as Christian, but as far as Islamic jihadis are concerned, anyone in a historically Christian country (except for Jews and Muslims) is a Christian, whatever he or she may actually believe. Thus Osama bin Laden declared jihad in 1998 against “Jews and Crusaders” when he issued his call to “kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military.”
ISIS’ boast of killing “Christians,” therefore, is entirely consistent with the jihad imperative as jihadis themselves articulate it. Russia was struck first and foremost not because of anything it has done or not done recently, but because it is, as far as ISIS is concerned, made up of Christians, and the Qur’an directs Muslims to fight against and subjugate Jews and Christians under the hegemony of Islamic law.
Many analysts today reject this idea and would insist that ISIS must have had an immediate reason to strike Russia, since after all, there are many majority-Christian countries, and it isn’t mounting attacks of this magnitude against them. That may, however, simply be a matter of having the means and opportunity; Americans who think this sort of thing cannot and will not happen here are likely in for a rude surprise, especially given the fact that we no longer have a southern border.
What’s more, ISIS itself appeared to rule out the idea that the attack was a response to anything in particular. The Amaq statement said that “the attack comes within the normal context of the raging war between the Islamic State and countries fighting Islam.”
How is Russia “fighting Islam”? The Islamic State struck the Russian embassy in Kabul in 2022, and its animus against Russia appears to be related at least in part to Russia’s generally friendly relationship with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, which ISIS has been trying to dislodge.
Russia also targeted the Islamic State in Syria, and helped destroy the ISIS caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
It should also be remembered that we are in the middle of Ramadan. Palestinian Authority Supreme Sharia Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash said in 2022: “Ramadan is not a month of laziness but rather a month of activity, of effort, and of hard work, and as it also was in the life of the Prophet, a month of jihad, conquest, and victory.” What kind of hard work? The jihad group Qaedat al-Jihad explained in 2012: “Ramadan is a month of holy war and death for Allah. It is a month for fighting the enemies of Allah and God’s messenger, the Jews and their American facilitators.” Or as the Kashmiri Maulana Bashir Ahmad Khaki put it in 2018: “Ramadan is the pious month of ‘Jihad-o-Qital’ (Jihad and killing). Those who attain martyrdom while waging Jihad, doors of heaven remain open.”
That means that as the West’s most respected analysts look everywhere except in Islam for the reasons behind the massacre in Russia, the jihads will keep plotting more bloodshed and murder.
No I’m not brother. I see things as they are taking sides has absolutely nothing to do with it. I think the Biden Administration is going to be destroyed by what I see developing too. They cannot sustain what they are doing and are overrated at this point.
Overrated = Over matched
CIS, MI6, Ukraine, Russia, Isis... These are all bad actors. But there is no reason that crazy Isis couldn’t organize an attack on their own initiative. I doubt that we will ever know the truth.
You are forgetting, there are divisions in Muslims. Especially the Sunni-Shia division.
They hate each other, there were suicidal bombings of Shia mosques by Sunni radicals all over Muslim world.
Iran is NOT associated with ISIS!
Iran is Shia, ISIS is Sunni.
So Iran does not support ISIS and never had.
So I guess, better avoid large gatherings now.
Especially until the end of Ramadan, April 10.
Killing unbelievers during Ramadan gives the killer some bonus virgins in heaven or something like that.
Islam demands everything not Islam to be killed or enslaved.
None of this necessarily connects the attacks on Moscow with America, Ukraine, or any other Western power. The question, who benefits, is hard to answer.
ISIS is USUS. They were funded by the CIA to keep US soldiers occupied. The purpose is never to bring an end to conflict. Read 1984, we have always been at war with Russia, ISIS...... Instead of resolutions, we keep the war footing on, for no Gawdam reason. It surely is not to protect the Americans at home paying for this crap.
Because people like Raytheon, make a lot of money, making bullets and stuff. Big missiles. They need the war to keep going. The Russians will probably drive back and then we’ll have another reason to smash them. That’s what Biden wants to do andVictoria Nuland also. All they care about is to keep the military industrial complex making money money money. Doesn’t matter to them who dies.
Well this is easy they still hold a grudge from Afghanistan, Chechnya, and most recently Syria.
Plus Russia is an easy target, their attention is focused on the Ukraine.
Nobody in the world is safe from Islamo fascists, which is why they need to be neutralized.
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