A map showing ISIS controlled areas and the location of the French airstrike. Yahoo/AP
ISIS websites called for fresh attacks on civilians in America, France and other coalition partners. Yahoo/Reuters. The threats come after fresh American and French airstrikes in Iraq. In addition, ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adani taunted Obama and coalition members. Calling Barack Obama a "mule of the Jews", al-Adani claimed that America would be drawn into yet another ground war and would fail. He also called members of the coalition "crusaders" and compared Obama with former president George Bush.
My Comment:
More propaganda from ISIS. I'm not to worried about the "criticism" that these ISIS supporters have for Obama and our allies. Obama's fairly weak, yes, but they almost seem desperate to get the United States in a ground war. I don't see that happening, at least not in the short term, so these statements are mostly a bunch of sound and fury signifying very little.. I do have to admit that ISIS calling John Kerry an "uncircumcised old geezer" is probably one of the funniest things I have ever heard in any context. I'm wondering if that isn't some kind of translation error, but should you desire the full statement from ISIS look here. ISIS may be brutal, evil and completely wrong, but they can be funny when they want too.
On a more serious note the west should take these threats seriously. I've already talked about how ISIS is desperately trying to get "lone wolf" attacks in America. The calls against France are new though and I think they have a better chance of pulling off an attack there then in America. France has a very large Muslim population, many of which are radicalized and not integrated into French society. That's a recipe for disaster and there very well may be terror attacks or executions there. America does not have nearly the population of radicalized Muslims and most Muslims here have been integrated into society. It could still happen though.
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