“They’re doing everything they can to create a sense of instability”. But usually the interpretations outrun what the available information would justify. Not even to the extent of pretending to condemn it.
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These included attacks in Orlando in the United States, Kabul in Afghanistan, Istanbul in Turkey, Dhaka in Bangladesh, Baghdad in Iraq, Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur and Surakarta in Indonesia, and most recently on Monday (July 4) in Medina in Saudi Arabia outside the Prophet’s Mosque. The timing of these attacks coming close together might not be just coincidence, but then again it might. Perhaps the holy Islamic month of Ramadan has something to do with the timing, either in presenting easier targets with crowds of people gathering at certain times and places or in sending a message related to terrorist claims of acting on behalf of a religious cause. And that includes most Muslims, who make up the majority of the victims in ISIS-related attacks.
Ramadan ends Tuesday in many parts of the world. “People immediately knew that this was the only group in the world that could do something like that”.
Moreover, there are different scales on which to measure sophistication besides the number of people involved.
For another thing, only the Islamic State has the right kind of experienced personnel on the ground in Saudi Arabia.
An especially prominent subject in the current commentary concerns the role of ISIS, or its presumed role.
While the latest string of high-profile terrorist attacks can be directly attributed to Adnani’s statement, ISIS has not only been able to successfully motivate extremists to affiliate with its radical ideology but also managed to convince them to pledge allegiance to the group at the time of the attack, even if no prior ties have been established – as seems to have been the case with Mateen.
The past week has seen a horrendous upswing in ISIS terrorist attacks around the globe.
Arab stars condemned the explosive events rocking the region this week, after Iraq and Saudi Arabia were rocked by suicide bombings which ISIS claimed responsibility for.
According to Clint Watts, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation special agent on the Joint Terrorism Task Force and a Robert A. Fox Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Program on the Middle East, this surge in global attacks from ISIS could become the new normal as the terror group loses ground in the Middle East and its vast array of foreign fighters now find themselves “homeless”.
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Some of the perpetrators’ thinking may center on the particular states targeted. But now, as ISIS is very seriously losing control-the USA government estimates ISIS has lost 45% of its peak territory in Iraq and 20% of its peak territory in Syria-ISIS has turned the violence global. His series of tweets commenting upon the oft-repeated and unsafe belief of linking ISIS to actual Islam was met by cheers from many Turkish residents, with the Turkish Press Office calling it the “most meaningful statement”. But the main reasoning would be that any violence that is conducted far and wide in the name of ISIS, or that people suspect was fomented by ISIS, helps to sustain an impression among the group’s supporters and would-be recruits that it is alive and kicking and not on the decline.
