The Islamic State (IS) terrorist group called on its followers this Sunday to carry out attacks in Europe taking advantage of the war raging in Ukraine, in addition to launching a military campaign in revenge for the deaths of the former leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al Qurashi, and Abu Hamza al Qurashi, who was his spokesman.
“Taking the good example of our brothers in Beit al Maqdis (Israel) for their blessed operation a few days ago (…) Now they have the opportunity. Europe is burning and the crusaders are killing each other,” said Abu Omar al Muhager, current spokesman for the terrorist organization, through an audio message from 33 minutes broadcast by his audiovisual production company Al Furqan.
“It is a war in which we ask God not to quench its fires until the worshipers of the cross are burned and destroy their kingdom so that they suffer what the Muslims have suffered”, added the spokesman.
Al Muhager stressed that the Crusaders’ fear of war appeared “clearly” in Europe and the United States when it arrived in their territories, asserting that the “pride and barbarism of the Russians and their attempts to recover the glory of Soviet Union and polarizing the world forced Europeans and Americans to enter (the war) and involve others so that they do not pay the price alone”.
The spokesperson, through a clip titled “Fight against them and Allah will punish them with his hands”, promoted a new military campaign that he classified as “invasion” for revenge for the death of “the two sheikhs”, referring to the murder of the previous leader and spokesman.
According to the Washington version, Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurashi blew himself up after being surrounded in a military action where seven people were killed. including a woman and at least two of her children.
The message released this Sunday is the second to be published after the announcement in March of Abu al Hasan al Qurashi as the new highest authority of the State Islamic, after his predecessor was killed in a US operation in early February in northwestern Syria. So far no details of the new leader are known.
Abu al Hasan al Qurashi was Proclaimed caliph two years ago, whose meaning is successor and delegate of the Prophet Mohammed in the Muslim community, after the death of his predecessor, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in another US operation. However, during his time in that position his face was not known nor was his voice heard.
With information of EFE