Islamic State in a Paroxysm of BloodLust

"The fight with Jews is a religious war, not a social or national battle. It is not centred around lands or borders."

"Barge into their homes and kill them using different methods, including gunfire, bombs, grenades and knives."

"Don't differentiate between a civilian or a soldier, as they both should be targeted."

Islamic State spokesman Abu Huthaifa al-Ansari

"And kill them wherever  you find them" is the title of a 30-minute recording calling on ISIS supporters worldwide to attack Jews in response to the Israel Defense Forces hunting down Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, published by the Islamic State media arm Al-Furqan. Al-Ansari instructs the ISIL terrorist cells to strike Israeli and Jewish targets across the United States and Europe. Emphasizing what good targets synagogues, Jewish gatherings and Israeli diplomatic missions make.

At least 95 people were killed after two bombs exploded at an event honouring prominent Iranian general Qassam Soleimani, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2020. No one has taken responsibility for the attack. Still from video, CBC

Coincidentally Islamic State has taken credit for a deadly attack in Iran that killed close to one hundred Iranians Thursday when two explosions wounded hundreds of people besides those killed, at a memorial for the Iranian Republican Guard Corps al Quds commander, Qassem Soleimani who had been assassinated by the United States in a drone strike in 2020. On its Telegram Channel the Islamic State announced that two of its members detonated explosive belts in a crowd gathering at the cemetery in Kerman the day before.

Unsurprisingly, although Islamic State has taken credit for the bombings the Islamic Republic of Iran accuses Israel and the United States of having perpetrated the bloodshed. Going so far as to assert that the Islamic State group in planning and executing the atrocity, was acting on behalf of Israel, following Israel's orders. The IRGC and Islamic State have much in common; both seek to annihilate Jews and Israel, but the former is Shiite and the latter Sunni, and they detest one another, though not as much as they do Israel.

According to Al-Ansari, the Gaza conflict lays wide open the complicity of a number of Arab nations, including Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, along with some Gulf nations, in what he described as the "Jewish war against Muslims". There is just something about Islamofascism in its embrace of jihad that magnifies the inhumanity of man to man, amplified by their estrangement from reality with their penchant for producing a reality all their very own, a typical pathology of group psychopathy.

According to the Islamic State Amaq News Agency Soleimani had been "involved in dozens of massacres of Muslims in Iraq and Syria". All Islamic State members, needless to say, present in the late and unlamented caliphate that encompassed a third of both Syria and Iraq, before it was liquidated, thanks mostly to the work of the Kurdish military aligned with the United States and its allies. 

"Hamas is ISIS -- this is not a slogan because we found terrorists with ISIS flags. We also found ISIS booklets", said Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, alluding to Israeli security forces discovering an ISIS flag on the body of one of the terrorists that died in Kibbutz Sufa in the wake of the Hamas October 7 attack on southwestern Israel that slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and raped, mutilated and butchered Israeli girls and women, while taking 240 Israeli children, elderly and soldiers, along with foreign farm workers as hostages into Gaza.

Israelis evacuated from northern areas near the Lebanese border due to ongoing cross-border tensions, lift Israeli and a Druze flag during a rally near the northern Amiad Kibbutz, demanding to return home on December 26, 2023. Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images