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Islamic State tells members to “profit from pandemic” while instructing them to “flee from the one afflicted”

Mar 25, 2020 8:00 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

Nothing stops the jihad war against infidels, not even coronavirus. The Islamic State’s prayer to Allah is for the weaponization of the virus:

“We ask God to increase their torment and save the believers from all that.”

The group has been seeking ways to exploit the spread of the virus. It has now “urged its members to use the opportunity to work toward freeing fellow militants and their family members in prisons where they ‘are threatened by disease in addition to subjugation.'”

In Iraq, some 20,000 suspected IS militants are held in jails across the country. Freeing any number of them would serve to reinforce their operational capabilities and threaten to undo years of coordinated efforts to contain the militant group.

But the Islamic State is also aware of the threat the virus poses, instructing its followers last week “not to travel to Europe for attacks because of outbreak” and that “the healthy should not enter the land of the epidemic.” Islamic State members appear to be trying to balance their own jihadist zeal against the infidel and self-preservation. A newsletter also “instructs members of the group to ‘flee from the one afflicted with leprosy as you flee from the lion.‘”

“Coronavirus: ‘Islamic State’ seeks to profit from pandemic,” by Lewis Sanders IV and Tom Allinson, DW, March 23, 2020:

As public health authorities across the globe struggle to manage a devastating pandemic, the mayhem caused by the novel coronavirus has increasingly figured in the strategy of the “Islamic State” (IS) militant group.

In their regular newsletter circulated last week, IS described the pandemic as a divinely wrought “painful torment” against “crusader nations,” a term referring to Western countries engaged in a military campaign to uproot the group.

It went on to describe the outbreak’s fear factor as having a greater effect than the epidemic itself, saying it has placed the Western world “on the verge of a great economic catastrophe” by restricting mobility, roiling markets and disrupting public life.

“We ask God to increase their torment and save the believers from all that,” the group said..

The outbreak could be seen as reinforcing the militants’ theology. It is also affecting international efforts to contain IS after the group’s military defeat last year….

Indeed, the militant group in mid-March issued an initial advisory concerning the pandemic, calling on its fighters to avoid travel to affected areas. Instead, the IS suggested that they would receive divine protection from illness if they engaged in jihad.

One way to perform such spiritual struggle, the advisory argued, would be to break out fellow militants, their wives and children from prisons in the region. Already in October, more than 750 people with suspected links to IS broke out of Ain Issa camp in northeast Syria, a feat they accomplished by rioting while Kurdish forces were distracted by a Turkish offensive…..

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  1. A Gnostic Agnostic says

    Mar 25, 2020 at 8:24 am

    Meanwhile humanity still doesn’t understand Islam is the root of Nazism never defeated.

  2. Carolyn Marlin says

    Mar 25, 2020 at 10:40 am

    Sir can you explain the trued hat muslim and commies are not both anti-Christ???

    • PRCS says

      Mar 25, 2020 at 3:47 pm

      Islam is not anti-Christ. It is anti all ‘unIslamic things’ and ‘unbelievers’.

      Russia has a very active Eastern Orthodox community.

      • mortimer says

        Mar 26, 2020 at 8:57 pm

        Islam denies all of Christianity’s core doctrines that make up ‘The Good News’. If that isn’t ‘ANTI-CHRIST’, then what is?

  3. gravenimage says

    Mar 25, 2020 at 9:18 pm

    Islamic State tells members to “profit from pandemic” while instructing them to “flee from the one afflicted”
    ………………..

    Hatred of unbelievers is always number one for pious Muslims.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 26, 2020 at 9:00 pm

      The MOTIVE of all Islam is hatred directed from Muslims against the dirty, wrong-worshiping kufaar ‘for the sake of Allah’.

      Muslims who do not hate dirty kafirs are simply avoiding to practice Islam. They are called ‘HYPOCRITES’ by the Koran.

      However, ALL Muslims conduct the JIHAD OF THE TONGUE when they cloak, dissemble and conceal the true motive of Islam (hate) and the METHODS of jihad (cruelty and deception).

      • gravenimage says

        Mar 26, 2020 at 9:26 pm

        True, Mortimer.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 26, 2020 at 9:10 pm

      How will the unscientific jihad-leaders determine how to “flee from the one afflicted” if most people show no symptoms in the initial infectious stages? The jihadists will be infected, then, without knowing it. From 10% to 16% of the jihadists infected will die.

  4. Battle says

    Mar 26, 2020 at 5:50 am

    Islam says on the cross Jesus was replaced by another.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 26, 2020 at 9:27 pm

      Yes–Islam claims some poor pawn died nameless in Jesus’ place. Ugly stuff.

  5. OLD GUY says

    Mar 26, 2020 at 12:12 pm

    Thats the love and caring religion of islam at it finest. I do not know of another religion that wishes death and harm on its fellow mankind. Only the warped minds of a man made ideology designed to put power in the hands of its leader acts this way. Islam is the ideology for the islamics leaders to create a dictatorship and their dream of world dominance. Sound familiar!

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