The spokesman for the ISIS group, Abu Huzaifa al Ansari, called this Thursday for
individual attacks in Europe and the United States
to support Muslims in the war in Gaza and congratulated those responsible for last Friday's attack in Moscow. The call was launched less than a week after the attack on a Moscow theater that left at least 143 dead.
In a 41-minute "reminder" voice message posted on Telegram and whose authenticity has not yet been verified, the terrorist organization - also known as the Islamic State - said that what is now being done to Muslims in Gaza is "what they have suffered twice a few years ago by the brothers in Syria, Libya, Iraq, the Sinai (Egypt) and Yemen".
"We thank the soldiers of the caliphate for their efforts and pray to God that they succeed in reaching the lands of Palestine to fight the Jews face to face in a religious war that ends them all. In this regard, we incite the lone lions to "to
target Jews and Crusaders in all places, especially in the United States and Europe
," he said in the message - originally in Arabic - distributed by the Al Furqan production company, the group's propaganda organ.
He described the war in Gaza as a "wound of Muslims", in which the fight is needed "and not just slogans and slogans", according to the speech, also published on the occasion of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and to commemorate the ten years of the establishment of the "caliphate".
Islamic State jihadists destroy a church in Marawi, Philippines.
"And the fight against the Jews is not accomplished if it is not
with the fight against their allies
: the infidels and the crusaders in all places. Starting from that we have begun the united invasion launched to support our families in Gaza and which represents the brotherhood among the faithful," he indicated, according to the EFE agency.
Al Ansari thus reiterated his message broadcast on January 4 in which he called for attacks against the United States, Europe and the entire world, and in which he asked "not to distinguish between atheists, civilians or soldiers."
Throughout the speech, Al Ansari pointed out that after the attack in Iran last January, one of the worst in its history that left more than 90 dead, the Islamic State turned against "Russia, the crusade", a term that group used to designate Christians.
The spokesman described the attack in Moscow, which left 143 dead, as "a bloody attack by a group of lions of the caliphate" to "avenge the Muslims and discipline the infidels" and that does not need "justification."
The jihadist group claimed responsibility for the attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall, 20 kilometers from the center of Moscow, hours after the shooting. He also released a video of the massacre from inside, in which a group of people were seen shooting and cutting the throats of attendees at the concert of the Russian rock group PikNik.
Crocus City Hall, scene of the Moscow massacre. Photo EFE
Among those detained are four terrorists who participated in the attack, which occurred weeks after the United States and the United Kingdom warned about the possibility of an attack in Russia.
"We do not need to give legitimate explanations by attacking a country that always fought against Muslims before and now. And we continue to capture and kill their soldiers in Syria, and before that we defeated their plane in the Sinai," he added.
In this way, it refers to the intervention that Russia has carried out in the war in Syria since 2015, as well as the downing claimed by the Islamic State of the Russian Metrojet plane that left the Egyptian city of Sharm el Sheikh towards Saint Petersburg, also in 2015, and left more than 220 dead.
Islamic State encourages "confused youth" to go to Africa and Asia to "wage jihad"
Furthermore, the spokesman for the terrorist group called
on "confused (Muslim) youth" in the West
to migrate to the areas where the organization is present, which extend from West Africa to Asia, with the aim of "wage jihad."
"We repeat our call to Muslims around the world to join with your brothers to wage jihad (...) I address this message especially to the confused youth in apostate countries who feel bad about the misfortune of their nation," he said.
He assured that if these young people "don't know where to go," they have the opportunity to "live" and go to "the battlefields in the lands of the Islamic State."
Al Ansari alluded to the fact that before, when they proclaimed themselves the "caliphate" at the end of June 2014, they called for migration to Syria and Iraq, but "today the lands of the caliphate extend from western Africa to eastern Africa. Asia".
He also urged jihadists imprisoned in prisons around the world to be "patient," while he vowed
revenge against the Syrian Democratic Forces
, units made up mostly of Syrian Kurds and backed by the United States that run the prisons with fighters. and camps with relatives linked to the Islamic State in northeastern Syria.