In response to the Koran book-burning incidents in Sweden, ISIS has called for strikes on Christians everywhere.
According to a report released on February 6 by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the terrorist organization’s media wing has begun a campaign of propaganda that accuses Christians of being the targets of terrorist assaults.
Videos and messages urging ISIS agents to carry out attacks throughout the globe, particularly in Europe, were shared on social media as part of the campaign, which aims to motivate the operatives to commit atrocities.
According to messages on an ISIS-affiliated Telegram channel, Muslims should see the burning of the Koran as an affront to their faith, and they are urged to “spill the blood of the criminal.”
All Muslims were urged to uphold their faith if they want to enter paradise and to behave in accordance with the “measure for measure” concept.
After Rasmus Paludan, a Danish-Swedish politician and head of the far-right party, burned a Koran in Sweden as part of a demonstration against Turkey and Islam on January 21, the campaign against Christians was announced.
The Islamic holy book was burnt by Paludan in front of the Turkish embassy, inciting the latter to declare that it would not back the Scandinavian nation’s application for NATO membership.
Since then, protests have taken place in a number of Muslim nations. Three days later, on January 24, large gatherings of Afghan men denounced the occurrence in Khost, a city that borders Pakistan.
The Swedish government was urged by Afghanistan’s foreign ministry to “punish the culprit” and put an end to “such nasty and aggressive anti-Islamic and anti-Muslim crimes” in a statement released the day after the book burning on January 22.
One of the articles cites the January 23 murder of nearly 20 Christian civilians at a bar in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as evidence of ISIS’s propaganda blitz.
Additionally, numerous recent assaults that resulted in the deaths of Mozambican army personnel seem to have been retaliation for the burning of the Koran in Sweden since “Christians worldwide are considered Paludan’s brothers.”
Kill them wherever you meet them is the title of a film released on February 1 by the ISIS-affiliated Mathani Foundation, which calls for terrorist strikes in Western nations.
The movie, which contains footage of the act of burning the Koran, claims that Paludan hurt all Muslims but was protected by the Swedish government, who gave him security.
Later in the video, an ISIS member who can speak English with ease and who looks to be in Syria urges people to hurt “infidels” in whatever manner they can.
Kill them wherever you encounter them, he said, including vehicles and work equipment among the potential assailants’ arsenal of weaponry. If you’re a tradesperson, crucify the nail heads on the woodwork with a nail gun.
If you are a truck driver, run over them until their streets are covered with their filthy blood, or when they are asleep, pour oil on their homes and light them on fire so that the lesson [not to harm Muslims and Islam] will be seared into their skulls.
A previous audio of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, who served as the group’s spokesperson from 2014 to 2016, is played later in the film. Abu Muhammad al-propaganda Adnani’s was centered on urging Muslims in the West to murder ‘infidels’ in their nations.
Al-Adnani asserts in the audio that all “infidels” should be targeted equally, including both civilians and security officers.
The film also shows footage of terrorist incidents committed by ISIS members or others who were inspired by them on European territory.
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