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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSlate: Trump’s Response to Orlando Is Exactly What ISIS Wants
Trumps Response to Orlando Is Exactly What ISIS Wants
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/06/trump_s_response_to_orlando_is_exactly_what_isis_wants.html
Donald Trump says the mass shooting in Orlando, Floridaperpetrated early Sunday morning by an Afghan American whod pledged allegiance to ISISvindicates Trumps hard line against ISIS and terrorism. In a tweet posted Sunday afternoon, Trump gloated that he had been proved right on radical Islamic terrorism. A few hours later, he repeated his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. In a statement Sunday evening, Trump argued that 99 percent of Afghans were radical Islamists, that Middle Eastern migrants should be kept out of the United States, and that anyone who refused to say the words Radical Islam in the hours after the Orlando massacre should be disqualified from the presidency.
Trump is a fool. Analysts who see this atrocity as an act of radical Islamic terrorismand who understand radicalism, Islam, and terrorism far better than Trump doessuspect it was inspired by a message from ISIS, issued three weeks ago. This elaborate statement, delivered by ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, urged ISIS sympathizers to attack civilians in Europe and the United States during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It also clarified the groups propaganda and recruitment strategy. Trumps platform of banning Muslims, blocking migrants, and ruthlessly bombing ISIS-held territory fits this strategy perfectly. Hes an ISIS stooge.
The statement from ISIS, released on May 21, exhorts Muslims to terrorize non-Muslims everywhere and to make Ramadan a month of suffering. But this plea comes from a position of weakness. The statement says the whole world has allied and rushed against us, launching 20,000 airstrikes and killing several top ISIS leaders. It pledges, defiantly and expectantly, that ISIS wont quit no matter how much territory it loses.
The worst peril, according to the statement, is emerging from within Islam: Evil scholars are using every form of media to issue fatwas against the mujahidin. These scholars, the statement explains, are promoting moderate interpretations of Islamic mercy. Theyre denouncing terrorism and condemning ISIS fighters as pseudo-Islamic renegades. Theyre instructing Muslims to renounce jihad and expel ISIS from their lands. For pages and pages, the statement goes on, lambasting these scholars and the damage theyre doing to public opinion. Clearly, ISIS sees this as a central threat.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/06/trump_s_response_to_orlando_is_exactly_what_isis_wants.html
Donald Trump says the mass shooting in Orlando, Floridaperpetrated early Sunday morning by an Afghan American whod pledged allegiance to ISISvindicates Trumps hard line against ISIS and terrorism. In a tweet posted Sunday afternoon, Trump gloated that he had been proved right on radical Islamic terrorism. A few hours later, he repeated his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. In a statement Sunday evening, Trump argued that 99 percent of Afghans were radical Islamists, that Middle Eastern migrants should be kept out of the United States, and that anyone who refused to say the words Radical Islam in the hours after the Orlando massacre should be disqualified from the presidency.
Trump is a fool. Analysts who see this atrocity as an act of radical Islamic terrorismand who understand radicalism, Islam, and terrorism far better than Trump doessuspect it was inspired by a message from ISIS, issued three weeks ago. This elaborate statement, delivered by ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, urged ISIS sympathizers to attack civilians in Europe and the United States during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It also clarified the groups propaganda and recruitment strategy. Trumps platform of banning Muslims, blocking migrants, and ruthlessly bombing ISIS-held territory fits this strategy perfectly. Hes an ISIS stooge.
The statement from ISIS, released on May 21, exhorts Muslims to terrorize non-Muslims everywhere and to make Ramadan a month of suffering. But this plea comes from a position of weakness. The statement says the whole world has allied and rushed against us, launching 20,000 airstrikes and killing several top ISIS leaders. It pledges, defiantly and expectantly, that ISIS wont quit no matter how much territory it loses.
The worst peril, according to the statement, is emerging from within Islam: Evil scholars are using every form of media to issue fatwas against the mujahidin. These scholars, the statement explains, are promoting moderate interpretations of Islamic mercy. Theyre denouncing terrorism and condemning ISIS fighters as pseudo-Islamic renegades. Theyre instructing Muslims to renounce jihad and expel ISIS from their lands. For pages and pages, the statement goes on, lambasting these scholars and the damage theyre doing to public opinion. Clearly, ISIS sees this as a central threat.
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Slate: Trump’s Response to Orlando Is Exactly What ISIS Wants (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jun 2016
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Salviati
(6,008 posts)1. Yup, these hateful bigots are each others greatest allies.
Hate begets hate.
David__77
(23,329 posts)2. Well, Islamic State may wish its own destruction.
Islamic State might welcome bombs and bullets not out of belief that it will triumph on earth; rather, that its members will have eternal glory.
My point is just that, simply because a force of evil "wants" something, doesn't mean that giving it to them will further its survival.
Gothmog
(144,919 posts)3. Trump is ISIS' number one recruiter