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Thursday, March 2nd, 2017

What ISIS Fighters Think of Trump

Author:     Amarnath Amarasingam
Source:     Politico Magazine
Publication Date:     1 March 2017
 Link: What ISIS Fighters Think of Trump
Stephan:   The naivete and ineptitude of Trump and his administration in foreign affairs is breathtaking. As this report says, "In a country with police shootings, racial tensions and war-fatigue, a president who some fear may crack down on civil liberties, further marginalize minorities, and turn America inward is, from the jihadist point of view, what they wanted all along. Jihadist groups were never naïve enough to think that they could defeat the U.S. militarily on the battlefield. Rather, the point was to draw them into a war of attrition, let them punch themselves out, make American Muslims aware of their insecure place in the country, and make American citizens afraid of each other."

Isis leader
Credit: Politico

Nine days after 9/11, George W. Bush declared during an address to a joint session of Congress that every nation now “has a decision to make,” that “either you are with us or with the terrorists.” Jihadists saw his statement as a gift from God. They argued that with this line drawn in the sand, members of the Muslim community now had a clear view of the parade of sellouts, hypocrites and “white-washed” Muslims amongst them. It would be obvious who was on the side of the Muslim community and who, as ISIS wrote in the seventh issue of their English-language magazine Dabiq, would rush “to serve the crusaders led by Bush in the war against Islam.”

According to jihadists, this opportunity to unearth the true Muslims, those who had the community’s back and those who didn’t, was a gift from above. As al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden claimed at the time in an interview, which was also later reproduced in the same Dabiq article, this line […]

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1 Comment

  1. shovland on Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 6:08 am

    The real point of ISIS is to create a new enemy for us to fight so some people can profit from the war. Do you remember when there was a long convoy of ISIS vehicles moving through Iraq? Ideal target for US fighter-bombers. Nothing was done. What does that tell you?