Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
[Order a copy of Robert Spencer’s newest book, Empire of God, by clicking here.]
The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for Friday’s jihad terror attack in Moscow, in which the death toll is currently 137 and will likely turn out to be many more once the magnitude of the damage is fully assessed. ISIS’ claim, however, has been greeted with widespread skepticism, as the usual suspects in conspiracy paranoia, notably the CIA and Mossad, have been accused on social media of being the real culprits. Yet there is absolutely no reason to discount the Islamic State’s involvement, as a close examination of its claim of responsibility demonstrates.
ISIS issued a statement boasting that “the Islamic State dealt a strong blow to Russia with a bloody attack, the most violent targeting it in years.” It added that “security sources told Amaq Agency that a coordinated attack was launched by Islamic State fighters, on Friday, on a large crowd of Christians in the city of Krasnogorsk on the outskirts of the capital, Moscow.”
Amaq Agency is ISIS’ mouthpiece for its announcements of various jihad activities. In 2019, the State Department declared Amaq a foreign terrorist organization, making it one of the few media outlets that cheer on jihad violence to bear the terrorist designation officially. If the State Department were consistent, the New York Times, the Guardian, Reuters and all the other “news” agencies that publish Hamas propaganda as if it were objective reporting would be designated terrorist organizations as well.
The most noteworthy aspect of the statement, however, is ISIS’ name for its victims: Christians. The statement continued: “The sources added that the attack targeted a mass concert attended by thousands of Christians, inside a music hall located within a large commercial complex in the city.” Did ISIS strike a Christian concert? No, the crowd was there to see a concert by the popular Russian progressive rock group Picnic. So why did ISIS refer to its victims as Christians?
About half of the Russian population identifies itself as Christian, but as far as Islamic jihadis are concerned, anyone in a historically Christian country (except for Jews and Muslims) is a Christian, whatever he or she may actually believe. Thus Osama bin Laden declared jihad in 1998 against “Jews and Crusaders” when he issued his call to “kill the Americans and their allies — civilians and military.”
ISIS’ boast of killing “Christians,” therefore, is entirely consistent with the jihad imperative as jihadis themselves articulate it. Russia was struck first and foremost not because of anything it has done or not done recently, but because it is, as far as ISIS is concerned, made up of Christians, and the Qur’an directs Muslims to fight against and subjugate Jews and Christians under the hegemony of Islamic law.
Many analysts today reject this idea and would insist that ISIS must have had an immediate reason to strike Russia, since after all, there are many majority-Christian countries, and it isn’t mounting attacks of this magnitude against them. That may, however, simply be a matter of having the means and opportunity; Americans who think this sort of thing cannot and will not happen here are likely in for a rude surprise, especially given the fact that we no longer have a southern border.
What’s more, ISIS itself appeared to rule out the idea that the attack was a response to anything in particular. The Amaq statement said that “the attack comes within the normal context of the raging war between the Islamic State and countries fighting Islam.”
How is Russia “fighting Islam”? The Islamic State struck the Russian embassy in Kabul in 2022, and its animus against Russia appears to be related at least in part to Russia’s generally friendly relationship with the Taliban government in Afghanistan, which ISIS has been trying to dislodge.
Russia also targeted the Islamic State in Syria, and helped destroy the ISIS caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
It should also be remembered that we are in the middle of Ramadan. Palestinian Authority Supreme Sharia Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash said in 2022: “Ramadan is not a month of laziness but rather a month of activity, of effort, and of hard work, and as it also was in the life of the Prophet, a month of jihad, conquest, and victory.” What kind of hard work? The jihad group Qaedat al-Jihad explained in 2012: “Ramadan is a month of holy war and death for Allah. It is a month for fighting the enemies of Allah and God’s messenger, the Jews and their American facilitators.” Or as the Kashmiri Maulana Bashir Ahmad Khaki put it in 2018: “Ramadan is the pious month of ‘Jihad-o-Qital’ (Jihad and killing). Those who attain martyrdom while waging Jihad, doors of heaven remain open.”
That means that as the West’s most respected analysts look everywhere except in Islam for the reasons behind the massacre in Russia, the jihads will keep plotting more bloodshed and murder.
Georgee says
Chances are it’s an FSB false flag ops, just like it was the apartment building bombings in Moscow twenty years ago.
Jeff Bargholz says
What is FSB? I don’t get it.
Old Fogey says
FSB is the successor organization to the former KGB (committee for state security).
danknight says
What Old Fogey said. … Georgee is suggesting that Pootler attacked his own people …
… the way he blew up his own pipeline, his own bridge, his own people in the Dombass … and so on.
I would agree that a state actor such as an intelligence agency was involved, but Pootler does not need any false flags right now … especially one that flies in the face of dismissive statements they just made against the warnings from the Americans.
Jeff Bargholz says
Oh, and there’s video of those subhumans shooting people and one of them even slashed a corpse with a knife, the sick freak. It wasn’t a false flag operation, it was real
Georgee says
You don’t understand how false flag ops are conducted. It does not require putin to be on top of the tank a block away to lead this, Mr. Bond. FSB has connections to most terror network in the world. They – technically KGB as their predecessor – launched most of them in the first place.
Jeff Bargholz says
So Vlad Puto used those dumb amateur jihadis to kill hundreds of Russians just to blame it on the Ukraine? He sure didn’t blame islam and moslems.
You’re a dumbass.
Georgee says
If you think that putin cares about an ordinary russian – particularly the one who goes to a rock concert of the group blacklisted by KGB when he worked for it – you are a dumbass.
David Ray says
Most likely the FSB took a page from our FBI and were unmotivated & lackluster in their investigation.
An example: The FBI were tipped off TWICE about the Tsarnaevs in Boston.
The FBI squeamishly asked the Tsarnaev brothers if they were jihadists. The Tsarnaevs said “certainly not”, and the FBI closed the case. (The Tsarnaevs public postings said that they certainly were jihadists, but the FBI weren’t interested. Only MAGA tweets concern them.)
Bob says
Lying to non-believers is permitted per the Koran.
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
and catholic attendees of mass in latin.
David Ray says
and concerned parents at schoolboard meetings.
WhiteHunter says
Thanks, David Ray. I was going to make that same, congruent comparison myself, but you covered it.
Tionico says
ha interaction was for show and tell. Everything I’ve seen concerning tht attack tells me it was staged, and NOT by the T Bros. Video of one of the “blasts” was a joke. The direction of the blast that happned “in the courtyard” has the blastt force going in an enirely different direction, not possible to have been from where “they” say it was. I think the Eff Bros stged it, just like tney did the 6th January “pipe bomb” nex the politica headquarters. Theyr “investigation” afterward was more like a Keystone Kopps flick…. and their antics once the surviving bro was accidentaly discovered by a local not “in” on the game were phenomenally bizarre…… instead of surrounding the boat he was supposedly in they simply poured fast lead ito and through it, utterly destroying a classic collectible old wooden boat. Of COURSE the T Bro inside was no more. As they had wanted from the git go. No tiral, no evidence to be presented that challenged their made up fairytale narrative. Summa deese guys would make better mystery novelists than real invesigators of real crime.
Beez says
It’s ok with me if Putin wipes that crap stain from the earth whatever the truth of this matter.
Jeff Bargholz says
All three of them will no doubt be executed.
Moshe says
There are four whose photographs have been publicly displayed; three have confessed, and a total of 11 have been detained. They will be tortured to the point that they beg to be executed.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yeah, I saw that and heard a report that there were five shooters. I don’t know anything about the other six being detained, though and I’m skeptical of reports that one of them didn’t confess. All four of them were beaten pretty good and looked terrified.
I wish American authorities would torture people like them.
Beez says
Likely ISIS purpose: make Putin appear weak.
Semaphore says
If you are correct, boy, are they stupid! Putin is a dictator and megalomaniac, expect to see retributions against Russian Islamic quarters in the near future. Step on a cobra, get bitten.
NYgal says
Why are you unwilling to accept that Muslims did it. It’s not like Muslims haven’t killed concert goers before. Actually October 7 immediately comes to mind and then a concert in UK, and before that, a concert in France. Given that track record, one would think that Muslims seem the most logical culprits,
Jeff Bargholz says
The guy who shot up the country music festival in Vegas was likely a convert to islam. He’d dated a woman from an islamic area of the Philippines and visited her there.
danknight says
Some of us just refuse to see Islam as a problem …
… and we prefer to hate the usual suspects – whomever it is we want to hate.
Alkflaeda says
I’ve sometimes wondered whether Mohammed was tone-deaf, given the way that Islamists seem to hate music.
Tionico says
they DO have a rather impeccable track record, they do…….
ArnoldF says
not everything that goes against Russia is a false flag. if a nation that resorts to killings its own is divided against itself as the bible speaks of–that nation is surely coming to an end.
Jeff Bargholz says
So were those jihadi terrorists Tajiks or not? Inquiring minds want to know.
I know Tajiks think the Soviet years were “golden years” because they got so much unsustainable welfare. I had one tell me so.
Is that why they formed an ISIS chapter and attacked the “Christians” in Moscow? They’re bitchy because they don’t get free stuff anymore? They want to be like asshole Uzbekistan?
David Ray says
Islamic pricks never had a problem cashing their welfare checks in Malmo. They took their free cash (courtesy of native taxpayers) and dutifully turned huge areas in Sweden into “no-go zones” & regularly accosted native taxpayers. (Rapes against women, something previously unknown, became commonplace.)
The Tsarnaev brothers were cashing welfare checks the month they setfoot in Boston. They put the money to good use to bomb the Boston marathon.
The FBI were tipped off, but failed to act. (Perhaps if the FBI had been informed the Tsarnaevs were Tea Party members, they would’ve acted with some resolve.)
So you have a point. Islamists are like leftist bums; they get pissy when cut off from public assistance.
Alkflaeda says
They view welfare as jizya. The Qur’an gives unbelievers three options : convert, pay jizya or die. So if you don’t convert and you stop paying jizya…..
Mo de Profit says
I can see logic in your argument, I can also see logic in it being related with Ukraine but there’s zero logic behind mossad.
Banastre Tarleton says
Look, it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to solve this mystery . These 4 creeps were not determined Jihadists willing to blow themselves up, they were merely low grade muslim morons who were bribed by the nefarious Ukrainians with a large amount of filthy lucre, and who convinced themselves they could carry it out, then escape to live ”happily ever after ” .They thought wrong and now the Russians will make them reveal every minute detail in a show trial on national TV
Those Ukrainian gangsters are capable of anything , and would like nothing better than to false flag NATO into WW3 to save their sorry asses
Just because ISIS claimed responsibility doesn’t mean they were behind it ; they just want the attention and notority regardless
Old Fogey says
Thanks, Chuckie. Put your Russia hate on hold and think before posting.
danknight says
Looks like you struck a nerve, Tarleton … 😉
But yes, while we don’t have any evidence that Ukraine provided support …
… ruling them out is willfully naive.
And the fact that the scum were hired to hit Moscow, and not for a suicide mission …
… kind a sus …
Tionico says
Personally I lean more toward these saps that got caught ARE real jihadists, but on the take from some higher ups in the Ukraine. The US Gravy Train seems to have wrecked, or at least run out of steam for a season. thus their (the Ukes) goals are set back for a time. I can easily see that totally corrupt godless government under the Piano Pecker guy playing the field to see if tey can’t find another “love interest” to sweetheart them for a season… and the mozzies are very likely suckers for that new position.
Of course if the Zenelsnky Unit were to really sicceed he would have to find and PAY FOR higher grade sub rosa operatives than these clowns.
How stupid.. do the jpob, hop into a car, and drive THAT car toward the nearest inarnational boundary and ry to cross it?
Nope. Ditch the car, slither into the woodwork a ways away, lay low for a few days, find a different car then take a vacay and sashay toward the Ukrainian Boundary for a little R n R. Maybe they were just too ipatient to collect their “hit money” and didn’ want to wait. I am glad they were so impaient. Dey dun got COTT. End of that Gravy Train Ride. My guess is they will soon be staring up the barrels of some Kalashnikov Rifles inside a medium sized stone wall enclosure. and THIS new experience will take place after a decent stretch of time devoted to sensory deprivation, frightening abuse and threats, most certainly a non-halal diet including PIG and multiple sequential interrogations lasting a few days or maybe even weeks. They will be broken down sufficiently to spill quite a few beans….. And their god allaa will be exactly where he has always been.. nowhere to be found.
Chief Mac says
Islamofascism- A genocidal, supremacist cult is a threat to the entire world and must be eradicated before they murder hundreds of millions more people.
Rob A says
As long as they confine their terrorist activities to western countries they can murder, assassinate, bomb and chop heads off with impunity. Nothing of any serious consequences will happen to them.
From what I’m reading in the foreign press about what the Russian have done to the guys they’ve caught thus far, those ISIS savages will think twice and then again before screwing around with Russians in the foreseeable future.
Getting the snot, piss and sh*t beat of them will be the least that is going to happen to those ISIS savages while in Russian custody. They’d be lucky to survive long enough to see a day in a Russian court room. If only western countries had the huevos to deal with muslim terrorists that way..
Tionico says
Yep. They only understand one language.. so speak to them in THAT language. I won’t judge the Russians harshly for so dealing with them. It will send a LOUD message to their owners back home. One they need to hear.
I think the Russians will be very aggresive towrd them because they understand that anything less will NOT deliver the needed message. I’ve seen the acronymn lately FAFO. They did, and they are. And will continue to. Playng patty cake and tiptoeing through the tulips just won’t send the correct message back to HQ, for some unknown reason……..
sumsrent says
The Luciferian Globalists of America support satanic islam… mainly… satanic Sunni islam.
MuggsSpongedice says
Correct: The Luciferian Globalists of America support satanic islam… mainly… satanic Sunni islam
DetroitOtaku says
Russia was literally the third largest supplier of foreign fighters to ISIS and there are far more Muslims living in Russia – in both percentage and raw numbers – than the US and France combined.
danknight says
Yes. And one would think that might provide some insight into Russian policies.
Amazingly … it’s never a factor. I have not seen one pundit or analyst consider it.
… whether on the exterminate all Russians side or the Russians can do no wrong side ……
sumsrent says
You’re not thinking… Russia supports the Shiite Iran.. ISIS is Sunni….
Beez says
The Grand Poohbah is BHO.
Hannah Katz says
I see they finally released the identities of the murderers. Four long Muslim named men from Tajikistan. No ties to Mossad, the CIA or Ukraine.
Sword of The Spirit says
Hopefully they’re torturing the ISIS to get some answers.
Sword of The Spirit says
The cult of the beardwearers. Hopefully the Russians are torturing them right now.
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
Radio reports are they do look a little roughened up. LOL
Jeff Bargholz says
I saw them on TV this morning and they’d definitely been beaten. The other day I saw video of Russian soldiers stomping and beating one of them and then cut off his right ear.
WhiteHunter says
Oh, those poor terrorists!
Too bad the ACLU lawyers aren’t there to file decades-long “appeals” for them, as they have been here, for the Boston Marathon Bomber (and the surviving 9/11 terrorist murderers and their collaborators, long held in safe comfort at Guantanamo) to endlessly Appeal his open-and-shut conviction and death sentence, and demand a new trial.
I have to admire the “FSB”/KGB for one thing, at least: When they DO get the right man, they know how to deal with him; and they do so briskly and promptly.
…usually in a small, cold, windowless, concrete room in the cellar of the Lubyanka, with sandbags on the wall behind him so that there are no ricochets back into the faces of the firing squad.
Jeff Bargholz says
I remember a story about how the KGB cut the nuts off some jihadi terrorists they captured and sent them to their families, I think. No doubt the rest of the jihadi parts were burned rather than buried.
underzog says
Hey Vlad! How is your support of Islamic Jihad with Hamas workin’ for ya!
Old Fogey says
Dude, it’s the Chinese Communist Party that’s funding Iran and the muslim terror gang. Russia has been battling Islam for decades.
DetroitOtaku says
Russia was the third largest supplier of foreign fighters to ISIS.
Russia is allies with Iran, and recently stabbed Armenia in the back.
Since Putin took office, one mosque per day has been built in Russia.
Beez says
Maybe Iran just stabbed Russia in the back?
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
Biden has and is releasing $billions of frozen cash for Iran.
Stupidity coupled with butchering killers; what could go wrong?
Old Fogey says
Early reports of interrogation point to a foreign instigator mercenaries (who had Victoria Nuland for terror attack in Moscow Oblast in March?). That’s not to say the Muslim Brotherhood wasn’t the root cause of the action. The whole Biden regime seems to be in fealty to the votaries of Mohammed.
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
Yes, Victoria Nuland is a really evil person. Best we wait for more info.
We are dealing with a nest of toxic and lying vipers on all sides.
Jeff Bargholz says
Reportedly, Nuland issued a warning about music venues in Moscow before the attack occurred. That’s pretty damned suspicious.
Angel Jacob says
At least Russians are not shy like US when it comes to punishing islamists.
Alex says
Stand back…..and let’s allow Russian to do what Russian does.👍
Have some popcorn and adult beverages on hand….for the entertainment.
Walter Sieruk says
First, there was that horrendously evil and murderous jihadist bombing at a music concert in the city of Manchester, England on May, 22,2017 in which 22 people had been murdered and many more severely injured , most of the victims had been young girls and young women.
Then on October, there was those horrific murders by the jihadists of Hamas at a music festival in the State of Israel on October 7th 2023 in which 260 young people had been viciously murdered by those jihadists, who also committed many other many other Islamic atrocities.
Now just this month on March 22, 2024 on the outskirts of Moscow at another music concert there were more jihadists shootings and mass murders in which 137 people had killed by Muslim terrorists of ISIS in their jihad and at least 145 more people had been harmed.
Islam which its jihadists hates music and it also hates people. It hates them to death.
Walter Sieruk says
The terrible truth and harsh reality is that many times history repeats itself, as then evil happenings repeatedly do reoccur especially when it comes to the subject of the violent and deadly religion that is Islam.
As with that October 7th. 2023 murderous jihadists attacks against all those young people at that music festival, which was intended by the Israeli’s to be a joyful event but the vicious and death infecting jihadist of Hamas turned it into a tragic event.
Six years before that Islamic abomination occurred at that place in the State of Israel ,there was that murderous jihadist bombing at a music concert in the city of Manchester of the United Kingdom, the British of the city had intended that concert to be a joyful event but that vicious and death inflecting jihadist suicide/homicide bomber turned it into a tragic event.
This year on March 22, 2024 on the outskirts of Moscow at another music concert there were more jihadists shootings in which 137 had murder by Muslim terrorists in their jihad and at least 145 more people had been severely injured.
That’s three music events in three different nations that Muslims who are also malice –filled jihadists have engaged in murdering and maiming people in Islam’s jihad of Islamic terrorism which in instructed in the Quran, Surah 2:191. 4:89. 9:5,123 . 47:4.
The deluded dangerous deadly and demonic evils of the death cult Islam with its jihadists has no limit.
Luz Maria Rodriguez says
American media is not trustworthy.
Neither is American government truthful all the time.
We should wait until more information is available.
Possibilities are: isis, Zelensky, cia.
Steve Chavez says
UN SECURITY COUNCIL THIS MORNING. A minute of silence, all standing, led by South Korea, for the Movie/Concert goers in Moscow. THEN, a vote to demand an Israel/Hamas ceasefire……. HUH? Condemn ISIS and then vote in favor of HAMAS?
Will they then demand a Putin/Russia ceasefire when they start leveling cities in revenge… now blaming Ukraine… so now they want it justified?
Semaphore says
The sad irony in this is that the much maligned, impeached and perpetually endicted Donald Trump had these monkeys on the run four years ago. Gee, wonder what happened?
Spurwing Plover says
As long as your going to keep y our Borders open for these Heathans your going to get this. This is one reason we need a Border Wall not another Bridge
Roark says
All Moslems must be stripped of citizenship and deported back to the hell holes that spawned them.
Maha says
There is more to this than “ISIS did it”. Two weeks earlier, the US Consulate warned US citizens away from pubic gatherings.
The perps were Tajiks, and as another commenter noted, they slashed and shot with glee. That doesn’t mean they were not contracted to do so.
They were caught escaping to Ukraine, and were illegally in Russia.
Are all these observations just Red Herrings? Perhaps.
Could this have been a false flag?
Could this have been a CIA/Ukraine operation?
danknight says
That the terrorists are Muslim … was something we could have sussed from the get go. It fits the style – and skipping the suicide part is not that unusual for Tajiks – for those who recall the Boston bomber case.
Robert is correct … that we should not try to make it make sense – in a geopolitical sense, but we should understand the motives in terms of Islam.
That said, though … someone came up with the weapons, the cash, and they got around the FSB – and last time I checked the FSB was NOT like the FBI – and the Tajiks also planned to escape to the Ukraine.
Get a map … Google says it’s 54 hrs, 3856km from Moscow to Dushanbe Tajikistan …
but it’s 520 km from Moscow to Urkaine on the E101. That’s 7 hours.
The idea that this attack was planned, financed, and executed under the FSB’s nose without assistance from a state actor (and it might NOT be Ukraine, that’s totally possible) …
… is just naive. Esp. given what we’ve seen happen over the last 8 years.
Judith2 says
#1 world problem married to Marxism…nothing else is a problem
Robert of Prague says
Robert, well written piece. Putin is a moron persecuting his own people who oppose him & letting this massacre happen & looking for culprits in Ukraine. The FSB/GRU were caught w/ their pants down just like the Israelis on Oct 6/7/ last year.
In my book, the islamist & the players in the shadows must be prosecuted & executed w/ post haste.
Have been in Munich in 1972 during the SOH & seen the 2nd attack by the masked PLO cowards w/ AK-47 murdering Israeli athletes. Been saying ever since the solution is an immediate firing squad. Forget the appeasers like Pepe Chicom Bidon (not a typo, a play on words in French 😉 & the twerp & schmuck Gutierres moaning about starving Gaza kids.
Lastly, we are a goyim family yet support Israel since the Six Day War in 1967 – we were jubilant back then.
Robert of Prague says
Robert, well written piece. Putin is a moron persecuting his own people who oppose him & letting this massacre happen & looking for culprits in Ukraine. The FSB/GRU were caught w/ their pants down just like the Israelis on Oct 6/7/ last year.
In my book, the islamist & the players in the shadows must be prosecuted & executed w/ post haste.
Have been in Munich in 1972 during the SOG & seen the 2nd attack by the masked PLO cowards w/ AK-47 murdering Israeli athletes. Been saying ever since the solution is an immediate firing squad. Forget the appeasers like Pepe Chicom Bidon (not a typo, a play on words in French 😉 & the twerp & schmuck Gutierres moaning about starving Gaza kids.
Lastly, we are a goyim family yet support Israel since the Six Day War in 1967 – we were jubilant back then.
john blackman says
isis has a long way to go to catch up with putin the mass murderer . putin cant wrap himself in honor considering the last massacre of theatre goers and chechneya . putin is another stalin only shorter . communism alive and well after an initial illness and coming to a town near you along with islam , blm ,antifa , cia , doj , fbi , joe and cackloharris .
SPURWING PLOVER says
We don’t want Violent Muslims forcing us all to Convert to Islam under the threat of beheading we need to end Open Boders Policies