ISIS Threatens US with Terrorism
They’re openly mocking our profiling.
But in several telephone conversations with a Reuters reporter over the past few months, Islamic State fighters had indicated that their leader, Iraqi Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had several surprises in store for the West.
They hinted that attacks on American interests or even U.S. soil were possible through sleeper cells in Europe and the United States.
“The West are idiots and fools. They think we are waiting for them to give us visas to go and attack them or that we will attack with our beards or even Islamic outfits,” said one.
“They think they can distinguish us these days they are fools and more than that they don’t know we can play their game in intelligence. They infiltrated us with those who pretend to be Muslims and we have also penetrated them with those who look like them.”
I am reminded of my debate on airport profiling with Sam Harris, particularly my initial response to his writings.
Another Kevin • August 29, 2014 6:55 AM
Al Qaeda, after seeing our autoimmune reaction, openly switched its strategy to, “we will destroy the Western nations by frightening them into destroying themselves,” and openly mocked the amounts of money being spent on futile antiterrorism projects. This is more in the same vein: provoking an “Anyone could be a terrorist!” response so that we will plunge even deeper into the mentality of mistrust of our own. Who knows, maybe this time they can get us to starve ourselves by shutting down our transportation systems altogether, or destroy our civil government to protect it.
And we keep playing into the hands of the terrorists.