The fact that the Islamic State called for such an attack doesn’t mean that the attack last night was a jihad massacre. But no doubt Islamic State jihadis are celebrating.
“ISIS called for a lone wolf attack on the Las Vegas Strip in a chilling ‘call to arms’ video released in May,” MailOnline, October 2, 2017:
A propaganda video by ISIS that emerged in May called for a lone wolf attack on the Vegas Strip.
Police and counter-terrorism officials in Las Vegas were on high alert after the chilling 44-minute video emerged from the terror group urging followers to strike.
While it has not been confirmed that the attack on Vegas – which left twenty people dead and a hundred more injured in the early hours of this morning – are related, the video could have been a call to arms for a potential jihadst [sic].
The video the terrorist group that showed footage of Caesar’s Palace, the Bellagio Hotel and other icons from the casino row on South Las Vegas Boulevard.
Though the footage has been determined to be from 2015, authorities deemed the threat credible – particularly in the wake of the Manchester Arena massacre, and as the then coming Memorial Day holiday weekend which was expected to bring big crowds to The Strip.
‘I think anytime somebody goes on the internet and makes a threat that they’re going to conduct a lone-wolf or any type of attack, it’s our responsibility to view it as a credible threat,’ Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Capt. Christopher Darcy, who heads the Southern Nevada Counter-Terrorism Center, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
‘It would be irresponsible not to take any threat as credible, especially when made by a group such as ISIS, who has in fact carried out attacks in the past,’ Darcy said.
The terror propaganda video, released by ISIS on May 17, features extremist fighters from the US, Canada, the UK, Russia and Belgium, who call on Muslims living in the West to carry attacks on civilian targets.
The chilling ISIS threat video, unusually long for propaganda from the group, also features a man who appears to be American calling on lone wolf supporters to ‘liberate’ themselves and kill those who reject Islam by stabbing them, throwing them off buildings and driving cars into citizens.
As images of The Strip, as well as New York’s Times Square and Washington DC, flash across the screen, ISIS spokesman Abu Al-Hassan Al-Muhajir is heard urging lone wolf attacks in America, Russia and Europe, according to an analysis of the video by the Middle East Research Institute.
‘Know that our war with our enemy is an all out war and the interests of the enemy can be easily targeted,’ read English subtitles to the screed in Arabic.
‘Make sure they are preoccupied with their own safety, thus diverting their attention away from your Caliphate,’ Al-Hassan says.
The speech exhorting violence plays over a song by the German rapper Deso Dogg, whose real name is Denis Cuspert, a known ISIS militant….
mummymovie says
The just claimed responsibility.
mortimer says
This is LIFE-STYLE JIHAD which is aimed at the disapproved non-Sharia lifestyle of Western people.
The purpose of attacking Western lifestyle is to FORBID THE EVIL (Koran 3:110) and
according to Sharia law (https://islamqa.info/en/11403).
It is the duty of ALL Muslims to do everything in their power to enforce Sharia law whether the dirty Kufaar wish it or not.
Begonejihadi says
The moderate members of the religion of peace and leftiests are going to say the Islamic terrorists are not ‘authentic’ muslim, Can the ‘authentic’ Muslims stop islamic terrorists killing people ? No. Can letiests stop Islamic terrorists massacring infidels ? No. So what does ‘authentic’ Muslim matter ?
nicu says
German media always think we calm down when they say it was a Lone Wolf – but everybody knows they are the most dangerous ones !
Japetto Donatelli says
‘Know that our war with our enemy is an all out war and the interests of the enemy can be easily targeted…
This is the kind of violence islam teaches, this is what ISIS wants, and this is why so many muslims are killing us. Yet our leaders and media insist on telling us muslims are peaceful and we’re bigots for speaking out about their crimes and inhumane sharia. These appeasers can no longer twist the truth for muslims without drenching themselves in the blood of their victims, multiculturalism is no excuse for aiding treason and murder! Anyone who helps hide criminal intent shares in the guilt of the criminals. Our political appeasers are aiding and abetting people who live for a creed that threatens our security, our constitution, and our freedoms, and they are doing it with blatant lies and threats of legal repercussion against we who speak against it. And the media act like Nazi propagandists by portraying muslims as victims and exaggerating positives at the expense of the bloody truth about islam. Whether this shooter was acting on behalf of islam or not, I think this is good time for our politicians and media to embrace the truth about islam’s jihad agenda. It is hollow and meaningless to act concerned and to say “God Bless!” like Trump did for the victims but then not take the appropriate action to prevent more of the same. We want an honest appraisal of the threat and judicious action to put it to an end, not platitudes and hollow talk about “diversity is strength.” Muslims have never been for diversity, they have never been about tolerance. And that is why we’re constantly seeing the kind of mass murder we got in Vegas last night. Because muslims want us to be trapped in the same hateful ignorance they are trapped in, and the leftist appeasers are more than happy to help them do it.
Voytek Gagalka says
Of course they (IS) is celebrating: kuffar country is destroying itself by “their own hands” (with tacit or explicit support from their side).
Kasey says
If it’s proven eventually the shooter in fact had recently converted to Islam, President Trump will have a field day backing up much of what he and so many others have said about Islam, and that it knows no bounds.
gravenimage says
The Islamic State called for lone wolf attack on Las Vegas Strip in May video
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Just as ISIS calls for attacks on Franc preceded the Jihad attacks there…
gravenimage says
France
Politicianaphobia says
The Muslim Brotherhood is so entenched in the West and still the politicians do nothing. Why are so many Muslims allowed to run for public office if they do not believe in our laws? What the hell are we waiting for, the grand takeover? Politicians need to ban The Muslim Brotherhood and all radical Imams NOW. The world has already tried this “Everybody get together, let’s love one another right now” theory back in the 60s–It did not work.
gravenimage says
Most in the West do not realize that Islam is incompatible with the free West–they know nothing about it. Many don’t want to learn.