By Deutsche Welle
Mar 29, 2024, 00:29 AM EDT
The spokesman for the Islamic State (IS), Abu Huzaifa al Ansari, called for individual attacks in Europe and the United States to support Muslims in the war in Gaza and congratulated those responsible for the attack last Friday, March 22 in Moscow. .
In a 41-minute voice message broadcast on Telegram and whose authenticity could not be verified.
“We pray to God that they succeed”
The spokesman sent a “reminder message” to Muslims and said that what is being done now to Muslims in Gaza is “what the brothers in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Sinai (Egypt) suffered twice a few years ago.” and Yemen.”
“We thank the soldiers of the caliphate for their efforts and pray to God that they succeed in reaching the lands of Palestine to fight the Jews face to face in a religious war that will end them all.”
“In this regard, we incite the lone lions to target Jews and Crusaders in all places, especially in the United States and Europe,” he said in the message in Arabic distributed by the Al Furqan production company, the propaganda organ of the group.
“Do not distinguish between atheists, civilians or military”
Al Ansari thus reiterated his message broadcast on January 4 in which he called for attacks against the United States, Europe and the entire world, and in which he asked “not to distinguish between atheists, civilians or soldiers.”
Throughout the message, Al Ansari pointed out that after the attack in Iran last January, one of the worst in its history, which left more than 90 dead, the Islamic State turned against “Russia, the crusade”, a term that the group uses to designate Christians.
The spokesman described the attack in Moscow as “a bloody attack by a group of lions of the caliphate” to “avenge Muslims and discipline infidels.”
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