The terrorist militia Islamic State has once again claimed responsibility for the attack near Moscow and announced worldwide attacks on Jews and Christians. In an audio message released Thursday, IS spokesman Abu Huthaifah al-Ansari calls on the movement’s “lone wolves” to “attack crusaders (Christians) and Jews everywhere,” especially in Europe and during the current fasting month of Ramadan in The United States. as well as in Israel and Palestine.
Al-Ansari recalled the proclamation of the so-called IS caliphate ten years ago. At the time, the militia controlled large parts of civil war-torn Syria and neighboring Iraq.
IS cells remain highly active
The extremists have now lost their territory again. However, IS cells are still active in both countries. The message was published via the IS media portal al-Furkan.
Killers who had carried out attacks in Europe or other countries had repeatedly claimed support for IS. Recently, the terrorists who murdered at least 143 people in a Moscow concert hall were said to have been supporters of radical Islamists.
Terrorism expert: “Quite a big danger”
Terrorism expert Peter Neumann said early this week that there is still a “quite significant” terrorist threat to Western Europe. Since the start of the Gaza war in October, there has been a huge “mobilization of Islamists, of jihadists throughout Western Europe,” Neumann said on Deutschlandfunk on Monday.
Now there is also “the ISPK, that is, this branch of the Islamic State in Afghanistan, Central Asia,” which is “very ambitiously and aggressively trying to carry out attacks in non-Islamic foreign countries, including in Western Europe.” The Islamic State Khorasan (ISPK) group has its origins in Afghanistan.
Khorasan represents a historical region in Central Asia that included parts of Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan and Iran. These are some of the dangers that converge here, “where I say the biggest current terrorist threat in Europe now comes again from the Islamist, jihadist side,” Neumann said.
Source: Krone
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