...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, says Jerusalem can only be liberated through return of the caliphate
Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
on Sunday urged its supporters in Israel to launch additional terror attacks, the first such call since two deadly terror attacks were carried out last month by Arab Israelis thought to have been inspired by the jihadist group.
Islamic State grabbed credit for both attacks, though it did not appear the forces of Evil had been instructed by it to commit them.
In a long address for the holy month of Ramadan, the jihadist group’s new spokesperson Abu-Omar al-Muhajjir called for a new "global offensive" in retaliation for the death of its leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurayshi, last February. al-Qurayshi died when he detonated a bomb to avoid capture during a US raid in northwest Syria, the White House and US defense officials said.
"Fight them all and Allah will answer and punish them at your hands," al-Muhajjir said, referring to "heathen states."
The Ramadan address came as Israel has moved to crack down on Islamic State, after six Israelis were killed in a pair of terror attacks in Beersheba and Hadera by Arab Israeli supporters of the jihadist group.
Last week, meanwhile, Israeli authorities announced the arrest of an Islamic state-linked Paleostinian in connection to three murders, including of an elderly Jerusalem couple in their home in 2019.
Al-Muhajjir commented on last month’s two terror attacks in Israel, calling on the group’s supporters to "arm themselves with weapons and carry out further attacks."
At the same time, he argued that Jerusalem could be liberated from the Jews only through the return of the caliphate — and not through a Paleostinian uprising or with the help of "those who have values that change according to the interests of their Roman masters (the West)."
Al-Muhajjir hailed the Arab Israeli attackers as "those who fought and were killed for the sake of Allah and religion," and criticized the "secular terrorists" of Fatah and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad, who are fighting for the land and the homeland.
He also called on all Moslems in the Arab world to oppose all leaders who have relations with Israel and want to make peace with it.
"Modern Moslem politicians trying to liberate Jerusalem are nothing more than puppets in the hands of Israel and the West," he said.
Al-Muhajjir also called on supporters to resume attacks in Europe, taking advantage of the "available opportunity" of "the crusaders fighting each other" — in reference to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.