The Islamic State Strikes In Russia

[American_Jihad]

Lets see how tuff putin will be with the islamic beasts...

THE ISLAMIC STATE STRIKES IN RUSSIA
“Listen, Putin, we will come to Russia and will kill you at your homes” – and subways.
April 4, 2017

Robert Spencer

Ten people were killed and many others injured Monday when an Islamic jihadi exploded a bomb filled with shrapnel on the St. Petersburg metro. Another bomb was found in a different train station but was defused before it exploded. According to Reuters, “authorities had established the identity of the suspected suicide bomber and that the suspect was a 23-year-old from central Asia who had carried an explosive device into the St Petersburg metro in a rucksack” and had links to the Islamic State. And so this jihad attack looks to be the fulfillment of a vow the Islamic State made last summer: to strike in Russia, and strike hard.

In a video released last August, an Islamic State jihadi declared: “Listen, Putin, we will come to Russia and will kill you at your homes ... Oh Brothers, carry out jihad and kill and fight them.” The video also showed Islamic State jihadis, according to a subtitle, “breaking into a barrack of the Rejectionist military on the international road south Akashat [Anbar province, Iraq].”

“Rejectionists” are Shi’ites, who in the view of Sunnis are guilty of rejecting the legitimate authority of the first three caliphs, Abu Bakr, Umar and Uthman. The Russians in Syria are backing the Alawite regime of Bashar Assad, which is aligned with the Shi’ites of Iran (and the Alawite religion is itself an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam), and fighting the Islamic State. Hence the rage of the Islamic State against Russia – although Western analysts would do well to avoid the pitfall of thinking that if Russia were not involved in Syria, the Islamic State would not have struck in St. Petersburg.

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This is not just one way that the Islamic State and other like-minded Muslims look at the world. It is the only way. It is the prism through which they view all political events and issues. It is, likewise, the one aspect of this broad and spreading conflict that Western analysts continue to minimize, downplay, or ignore outright. And so as long as we fail to heed Sun Tzu’s adage that one must know one’s enemy in order to defeat him, we will continue to fail to defeat him.

The Islamic State Strikes in Russia

 

[RodISHI]

 

[tinydancer]

Well odds are it was a returning Chechen jihadist. They pledged allegiance to ISIS a couple of years back when Shishani was an ISIS commander. And they've been fighting with ISIS not just in Syria but also Afghanistan.

 

[tinydancer]

I've always maintained that as compared to western nations, Putin had real skin in this game. With the Chechens aligning with ISIS Putin made the decision to fight them in Syria rather than at home.

Russia won't be the only country facing terror attacks from returning jihadists. Meanwhile we've got looney left wing Judges who are risking similar attacks in America because of their stay on the temporary travel ban.

I just hope and pray that if a terror attack occurs and the jihadist is from any of the countries on the ban that all those Judges face trials for being accessories to terrorism.