This is “the first issue of its Inspire magazine since 2017.”
Why? What has changed? What makes al-Qaeda think that the time is ripe now to call on Muslims to carry out attacks against Americans, in a way that it wasn’t since 2017? Could it have to do with the occupant of the White House?
“New Issue Of Al-Qaeda In The Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) ‘Inspire’ Magazine – The First Since April 2017 – Calls Colorado Shooter Ahmad Al-Issa ‘Mujahid,’ Urges Muslims To Follow In His Path And Target ‘The American Enemy’ Inside And Outside The U.S.,” MEMRI, June 29, 2021:
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On June 29, 2021, Al-Malahem, the media arm of the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), released[1] the first issue of its Inspire magazine since 2017.
This issue of the magazine, titled “Praise and Guidance,” praised the Colorado shooter Ahmad Al-Aliwi Al-Issa, perpetrator of the March 22, 2021 mass shooting at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado in which 10 people were killed. It referred to Al-Issa as a mujahid – a jihad fighter – and went on to call on Muslims to target “the American enemy” inside and outside the U.S.
In the issue, AQAP stressed that waging jihad against the U.S. is a religious duty incumbent upon all Muslims “with strength and ability, until the U.S. stops its oppression against Muslims, stop supporting the occupier Jews who are oppressing our brothers in Palestine, and stop all its intervention in Muslim countries.”
After noting that all Muslims around the world, regardless of nationality, share responsibility for waging jihad against the U.S., AQAP congratulated the Muslim ummah and praised Al-Issa, mentioning that he was a Syrian national. It also called on Muslims in the U.S. and other countries to “follow his path in carrying out attacks against the American enemy, whether inside its homeland, which is preferred, or outside.”
AQAP then noted that Al-Issa had shared social media posts expressing concern for the plight of Muslims in Syria. It also mentioned that U.S. Congressman Madison Cawthorn stated in an interview on Fox News that Al- Issa carried out his attack to avenge U.S. airstrikes in Syria and that President Biden is to blame because of his policies in Syria.
AQAP also said that some of Al-Issa’s social media posts were “Islamic” and added that “he follows the ummah’s issues.” This includes a May 2019 post in Arabic in which he wrote: “So Mary wears a hijab and jesus doesn’t eat pork and prays on his knees and hands. There both Muslims it’s obvious.” In another post, Inspire claimed, Al-Issa wrote: “Muslims may not be perfect but Islam is.”
Detailing the attack, the magazine highlighted that the “mujahid” bought an AR-15 rifle legally and on March 22, headed to a crowded King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado at 3 p.m. The mujahid then killed three Americans outside the store and six others inside and wounded an officer who responded to the attack.
Summing up the results of the attack, the magazine stated that 10 “white Americans, including an officer” were killed and the supermarket was closed. It added that the attack “deepened the division among the American people, among right and left and among Republicans and their supporters and Democrats and their supporters.” Explaining this point, the magazine stated that the right used the attack as a pretext to criticize the left, since those targeted were “white and Anglo-Saxon,” as when the left used Asian Americans as a pretext to criticize the right. The magazine also highlighted that the right supports gun ownership and the attack revived debates about the spread of guns in America, prompting Biden to call for gun reform.
The magazine further noted that the operation had saddened Americans, highlighting Biden’s statement that “10 lives have been lost, and more families have been shattered by gun violence in the state of Colorado […] I just can’t imagine how the families are feeling – the victims whose futures were stolen from them, from their families, from their loved ones.” Addressing the U.S. president, the magazine stated: “We tell Biden that the feelings of the families of victims and their loved ones in America are the same feelings of the families of the victims of the American interventions represented in bombings and special operations in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, and other places. Now you can imagine such feelings too.”
Celebrating Al-Issa’s attack, the magazine noted that the situation in the U.S. today is similar to the situation in unstable areas in Muslim countries which have conflicts and killings, as the U.S. is witnessing daily shooting attacks. Moreover, the magazine stressed that Al-Issa’s operation increases anxiety and panic among Americans.
Inspire praised Al-Issa for his choice of weapon, location, and target and the “surprising” timing of his operation.
The issue also included a series of instructions for lone wolves to carry out an improved version of Al-Issa’s attack.
“Try to always choose a location where it is hard for those gathered to find shelter, hide, or escape. Do this to ensure that the largest number of people are killed,” said the magazine, before adding that a lone wolf preparing for the operation should be ready and determined to engage in clashes with the “police or the enemy” and to never surrender.
“For that, make sure that you have enough ammunition,” it recommended.
It went on to say: “Give your attack a destructive or explosive mark by manufacturing your own IEDs, using instructions listed in Inspire magazine, or preparing bottle bombs, known as Molotov cocktails. Take them [the explosives] with you to set a fire in the location of the attack. Take match boxes or a lighter and explosive material to burn the place. This will double the impact of the operation on the enemy economically, psychologically, and media-wise.”
“Fourth, take advantage of the availability of weapons and the ease of possession in America. Carry out a jihadi operation using them. It is very difficult and unlikely that weapons possession will be restricted in America. This would only require you to look online or in a weapons store about what it would take to obtain a legal license to acquire a weapon and to buy it. Choose rifles,” it added.
The magazine further suggested that if a lone wolf fails to purchase a weapon legally, he should look to the black market or assemble homemade firearms known as “ghost guns.” It explained that such weapons are less easily detected by authorities and therefore easier to obtain. It also noted that ghost guns have no serial numbers.
[1] Telegram.me/ALROAPTBOT June 29, 2021
revereridesagain says
Oh deary me, here’s Al-Qaeda being so “Islamophobic” as to praise poor widdle Al-Issa as a mujahid when he’s just suffering from “mental illness”.
I hope DHS is on the ball because according to Senile Joe and the rest of the DeMarxocRats, now the Slaves of Allah have to stage attacks that will surpass the January 6 “capitol riot” in property damage and lives lost.
Oh no, wait, I think Al-Issa already did that.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
The reason why Al-Qaeda calls on Muslims to carry out attacks against ‘the American enemy’ has a lot to do with the Democrat Party and the liberal Fake News undermining there own country.
How dare the Democrat ruining regime call on the UN to investigate racism in the USA. How dare those representing the USA in sports disrespect their country by kneeling at their anthem and standing for the operstition teams or turning their backs to their flag.
Democrat party and and their fake news media treat them as hero’s.
Most people have witnessed their despicable behaviour, notwithstanding this, The way they treated former president Donald Trump was absolutely evil . That he was in cahoots with Putin. Wrong fake news spread this story, the truth is Hunter Baden received millions from the Mayoress of Moscow. That there was quid pro with Ukraine, Wrong, Joe Baden in his own words had the attorney Ukraine fired for investigating his ,crack head son.
Not to belabour the point Mr D Trump was right on most things yet those spreading disinformation get away scot free.
These things have not gone noticed, lets all be honest here, the USA has not won a war since the second world war. In Vietnam the media hounded their own troops, the equipment left behind captured by the Vietcong, Middle East, same story, What a bet Afghanistan will be the same.
The USA has lost 10s of thousands of brave young Americans and billions of dollars as a result of leftest ideology and their fake media.
You cannot have fools of politicians dictating to the armed forces how to fight and you cannot treat your service man with disdain and arrested them for war crimes. How many of the enemy have been rested. When you fight there are no rules when it comes to your troops survival.
God Bless Trump, the people of the USA
mortimer says
Agree with Malcolm. The world sees the weak, doddering, crumbling Bribed-man in the White House and know that he will pose no threat to militant Islam. He is clueless about the threat and so are most of the Dems. They whitewash Islamic terrorism and gaslight us to convince us against all evidence that terroristic, supremacist, imperialistic Islam is ‘benign’.
Islam is NOT ‘benign’.
Keith O says
Unfortunately the assessment of the way the American system attacks itself and blames each other is pretty much spot on.
From a tactical point of view this instruction article was accurate in the way to attack and how to do it.
Given the very weak state of America at the moment, if mudslime Jihadi wanna bees take notice, then the US is in for a very rough ride.
This will then, in turn be used as a template for terrorist operations in other parts of the free world.
Also, the simple fact that these turds feel confident enough to put it in writing where the world can see it suggests that they are in no way afraid of the muppet in the oval office.
gregbeetham says
I’m sure everyone will breathe easier that the religion of piece won’t be implicated in any ISIS or Al-Qaida terrorist activity just because a minority of Muslims are having some psychotic issues.
Maybe a spot of counselling will fix these small outbreaks of anti-social behaviour, mass murders, stabbings, shootings, bombings, jihad martyrdom etc. it all could simply be because of nostalgia, maybe they miss the reassuring social and domestic interactions like the murdering of Christians and Jews they enjoyed so much back where they came from.
gravenimage says
Al-Qaeda calls on Muslims to carry out attacks against ‘the American enemy’ in first magazine issue since 2017
This is “the first issue of its Inspire magazine since 2017.”
Why? What has changed? What makes al-Qaeda think that the time is ripe now to call on Muslims to carry out attacks against Americans, in a way that it wasn’t since 2017? Could it have to do with the occupant of the White House?
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As Bugs Bunny would say, “Mmmmmmmm…could be”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L66f-jFWLgU&ab_channel=AlternateRealityTV
Joking aside, though, this appeasement has made us all more unsafe.