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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Islamic State Strikes in Russia

Apr 4, 2017 10:00 am By Robert Spencer

“Listen, Putin, we will come to Russia and will kill you at your homes” – and subways. My latest in FrontPage:

Ten people were killed and many others injured Monday when an Islamic jihadi exploded a bomb filled with shrapnel on the St. Petersburg metro. Another bomb was found in a different train station but was defused before it exploded. According to Reuters, “authorities had established the identity of the suspected suicide bomber and that the suspect was a 23-year-old from central Asia who had carried an explosive device into the St Petersburg metro in a rucksack” and had links to the Islamic State. And so this jihad attack looks to be the fulfillment of a vow the Islamic State made last summer: to strike in Russia, and strike hard.

In a video released last August, an Islamic State jihadi declared: “Listen, Putin, we will come to Russia and will kill you at your homes … Oh Brothers, carry out jihad and kill and fight them.” The video also showed Islamic State jihadis, according to a subtitle, “breaking into a barrack of the Rejectionist military on the international road south Akashat [Anbar province, Iraq].”

“Rejectionists” are Shi’ites, who in the view of Sunnis are guilty of rejecting the legitimate authority of the first three caliphs, Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman. The Russians in Syria are backing the Alawite regime of Bashar Assad, which is aligned with the Shi’ites of Iran (and the Alawite religion is itself an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam), and fighting the Islamic State. Hence the rage of the Islamic State against Russia – although Western analysts would do well to avoid the pitfall of thinking that if Russia were not involved in Syria, the Islamic State would not have struck in St. Petersburg.

In reality, the Islamic State’s enmity toward Russia goes much deeper than anger at its presence in Syria. On July 1, 2014, just after the Islamic State had declared itself the new caliphate – that is, the sole legitimate government for all Muslims anywhere on earth – its new caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, issued a declaration entitled, “A Message to the Mujahedin and the Muslim Ummah in the Month of Ramadan.” In it, he said:

O ummah of Islam, indeed the world today has been divided into two camps and two trenches, with no third camp present: The camp of Islam and faith, and the camp of kufr (disbelief) and hypocrisy – the camp of the Muslims and the mujahidin everywhere, and the camp of the jews, the crusaders, their allies, and with them the rest of the nations and religions of kufr, all being led by America and Russia, and being mobilized by the jews.” – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State’s caliph Ibrahim, in his message upon being named caliph, “A Message to the Mujahedin and the Muslim Ummah in the Month of Ramadan,” July 1, 2014 (capitalization as in the original).

The self-styled caliph couldn’t have been clearer: as far as he is concerned, the greatest enemies of the Muslims are the Jews, as he knows from his Qur’an (5:82). This sinister enemy of the Muslims has mobilized the United States and Russia to lead “the camp of kufr (disbelief) and hypocrisy” against “the camp of Islam and faith.” As far as the Islamic State is concerned, this is an eschatological struggle, the apocalyptic showdown between good and evil.

And given the exultant brutality of the Islamic State, they may very well have a point. But Western analysts would do well to realize that no adjustment of foreign (or domestic) policy is going to prevent attacks such as the one in St. Petersburg Monday, or the recent Islamic State jihad attack in London, or any of the others. Nor will the destruction of the Islamic State itself end this conflict: not only will its jihadis in Iraq and Syria be dispersed throughout the world to wage jihad in new countries, but other Muslims will also take up this cause, and enlist in the war between Islam and unbelief.

This is not just one way that the Islamic State and other like-minded Muslims look at the world. It is the only way. It is the prism through which they view all political events and issues. It is, likewise, the one aspect of this broad and spreading conflict that Western analysts continue to minimize, downplay, or ignore outright. And so as long as we fail to heed Sun Tzu’s adage that one must know one’s enemy in order to defeat him, we will continue to fail to defeat him.

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  1. IQ al Rassooli says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 10:09 am

    Islamic theology ASSERTS that ALL of humanity has to either SUBMIT to Allah’s Sharia or be EXTERMINATED!

    Muslims and Islam in a NUTSHELL~

    According to Allah’s Sharia, every Muslim is mandated to be the Mortal and Eternal ENEMY of every non Muslim (Infidel/ Kafir) on Earth. Currently non Muslims are 80% of humanity

    Therefore, every Muslim is a potential MASS MURDERER the instant he/she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough.

    Hence, every Muslim is a primed Time Bomb ready to go OFF (are those who LOVE Immigrants watching the news of what Muslims are doing ALL over the world?)

    No Infidel/Kafir/ Non Muslim is ever SAFE from Muslims

    All other explanations are IRRELEVANT and superfluous!

    Any challengers?

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud!

    • Blurb1000 says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 10:18 am

      Expelliano – everybody!

      Back to the ratholes.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Apr 7, 2017 at 7:48 am

        Or, as Harry Potter would say – “Expelliarmus!”

        Funnily, in the Harry Potter fantasy epic, Harry’s signature spell is the very simple “Expelliarmus!” that he learns very, very early on. The spell that deprives the opponent of the opponent’s *weapon*. It is the spell he uses against Voldemort, more than once, and every time, successfully.

        It’s ‘pidgin Latin’ and can be understood very roughly as a ‘portmanteau word’ involving two senses 1/ “expel [throw away. throw off] weapons [arms] (though that would be “arma’ not ‘armus’) and 2/ “We expel, we throw out”.

        I find it profoundly ironic that although J K Rowling the person is very much in the corner for PC, Harry’s signature spell in fact sums up *the* slogan that defines to a T what ALL the lands of the Infidels *have* to do in order to even have a *chance* of surviving the 21st century as free Infidel nations: they must cry ‘Expelliarmus!” and set about removing the mohammedan fifth column which is an ‘arm’ of the Islamic entity (the Ummah), a fifth column, an army and also ‘arma’, a weapon.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 10:28 am

      Agree with IQ. Koran 8.60 clearly says “TURHIBUNNA” (terrorize them).

      This commandment to TERRORIZE is ETERNAL and was written in eternity in Allah’s perfect book, so it cannot be abrogated or mitigated. All kafirs are under a death sentence… we are all waiting as it were on death row for Muslim terrorists to come and execute Allah’s supposed justice, because we do not think Mohammed is a valid prophet. All jihadists know that DIRTY KAFIRS DO NOT DESERVE TO LIVE. The jihadists think as little of murdering kafirs as they would of swatting flies. Jihadists are devoid of pity for suffering humanity. This harshness is taught in the Islamic source texts. (K.48.29)

  2. mortimer says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 10:21 am

    Sunnite Muslims have many scores to settle with Russia, if you know the history of Russia and the Soviet Union and their treatment of Muslims. Robert Spencer correctly identifies the Sunnite (really Saudi) hatred of Russia which is stalling their planned genocide of the Alawites and their planned pipeline through Syria and Turkey and into Europe. Saudis wish to corner the oil and gas market in Europe and push Russia’s oil and gas companies into the ditch. This war between the Saudis and Russians has apparently no solution that will please everyone, however, competition would probably be a benefit to the Europeans and having two or more sources of supply, would be better than having only one.

  3. Infidel lives matter says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 10:54 am

    Russia will have Muslim majority by 2050.

    http://windowoneurasia.blogspot.no/2007/08/window-on-eurasia-russia-to-have-muslim.html

  4. Pal says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 11:00 am

    Russia has 20 m Muslims in its entire federation of 140 m population – 15% – with more that 10,000 mosques.
    Under new regime, after the Cold War Kremlin already invented a nationalistic doctrine under which Islam is much more important ingredient to its “Slav-Orthodox” identity than any possible Western ingredient. According to that eclectic invention, Islam element has been added to it by centuries-long “interaction” with Asian Islamic “Steppe” peoples, and it has helped its toughness and surviveability, while Western ideas, such as Protestantism or Catholicism, democracy and freedoms, have only been confrontational to it or used as such but Russia has successfully defended against them.

  5. Pal says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 11:34 am

    During the Cold War, in Russia, “own” and overall islam – as Christianity and all other religions – were evil, thus bad. However, Middle Eastern islam was good, since it was anti-american and anti-israeli. KGB helped creating first Islamic terrorist groups of the world, in 1970s, which were segments of Palestinian PLO~Abu Nidal, and were mixture of islam-marxism.
    After the Cold War and until now, Russia ceased helping them against Israel, however, since 2013 Russia started helping the Taliban in Afghanistan against US and NATO.
    Central Asian islam is already not Russia’s “own” islam.
    “Friendly” islam to Russia is the “inner” islam of republics like Tatarstan and neighborliness Azerbaijan, but not Caucasian Dagestan or Ingushetiya.
    As regards the Middle East, “friendly” is also considered the Shia islam.
    Sunni islam topped by Saudi Arabia and the Muslim brotherhood is arch-enemy. It is considered as a tool of US external policy.
    But if a Saudi governmental sheykh approaches Kremlin to offer $10 b for 100 Russian tanks, Russian moment of enmity evaporates.

    • Angemon says

      Apr 4, 2017 at 12:20 pm

      Nothing good comes from flirting with islam, whether the flirting id done by Eastern or Western nations and regardless of the target being sunni or shias.

      • Pal says

        Apr 4, 2017 at 1:38 pm

        Nothing good.
        When flirting – islam feels the external touching of its strings – senses the useful idiocy – plays its taqiya – deliberates and prepares – then attacks…

  6. DFD says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 11:57 am

    Ah yeah, the annual “Ramadan Bombathon Fest” will soon start, I think.

    What do think, number of fatalities for the 2017 Bombathon: 300? 300? Do I hear 500, 500? Do I hear 800? 800? The mujahadeen gentleman over there, yes sir, you are looking at 72 virgins, self repairing. And each one weighing approx 40 tonnes, given their size…

    Not that this will have anything to do with Islam. After all, even Mohamed and Allah have nothing to do with Islam. Just ask Francis, the expert.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 12:57 pm

    This wicked bombing in St Petersburg, Russia is yet another sin onto God and heinous crime against humankind that may have been committed by or, at least, inspired by that demonic jihad entity, ISIS. Moreover, the cruel, brutal and murderous ISIS jihadists are so extremely deluded about themselves that they can’t be honest and acknowledge that the Bible verse found in Psalm 30 2,3. Does, very much, describe them. For it reads “Surely I am a brute, not a man; I do not have human understanding. I have not learned wisdom, nor have I attained to the knowledge of the Holy One.” [N.I.V.] Likewise, the jihadists who compose ISIS in such an Islamic delusional and irrational state of mind in their mad Islamic quest to establish a caliphate that they are further described in the Bible book of Ecclesiastes 9:3. This reads “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.”

  8. Tony says

    Apr 4, 2017 at 2:16 pm

    Let see if the WESTERN-White-Christian World can keep the Moslems killing each other. They do a very good job of killing each other.

  9. Matthieu Baudin says

    Apr 5, 2017 at 2:15 am

    “… Nor will the destruction of the Islamic State itself end this conflict: not only will its jihadis in Iraq and Syria be dispersed throughout the world to wage jihad in new countries, but other Muslims will also take up this cause, and enlist in the war between Islam and unbelief…”

    And to get a firm grasp of what we are up against we must listen long and hard to what the hundreds of thousands of apostates from Islam have to tell us about the nature of contemporary traditional Islam and its ongoing struggle against our universal civilisation.

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