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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 06:38 AM Jan 2017

ISIS celebrating Trump's Muslim-ban, hopeful it will bring them new recruits.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/jihadist-groups-hail-trumps-travel-ban-as-a-victory/2017/01/29/50908986-e66d-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?postshare=9121485733446720&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.b969c7c03872

Jihadist groups on Sunday celebrated the Trump administration’s ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, saying the new policy validates their claim that the United States is at war with Islam.

Comments posted to pro-Islamic State social media accounts predicted that President Trump’s executive order would persuade American Muslims to side with the extremists. One posting hailed the U.S. president as “the best caller to Islam,” while others predicted that Trump would soon launch a new war in the Middle East.

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“Jihadists would have to argue to lengths that Obama, Bush, and others held anti-Islam agendas and hated the religion — not just radical terrorists,” said Rita Katz, founder of the SITE Intelligence Group, a private organization that monitors jihadist websites. “Trump, however, makes that argument a lot easier for them to sell to their followers.”



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The list of Trump's fans includes:
- Kim Jong Un
- Saddam Hussein's daughter
- actual real-life Nazis
- ISIS
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