‘American ISIS’ fighter says terrorists should murder Americans with ‘2nd Amendment’
December 30, 2017
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An English-speaking jihadist with an American accent called upon fellow Muslims to use our own Constitutional guarantees against us.
In a video uploaded to YouTube, an alleged Islamic State terrorist calling himself Abu Salih al-Amriki told U.S. jihadists to “take advantage of the gun laws” that Americans enjoy because of the Second Amendment, according to Stars and Stripes, a newspaper that focuses and reports on matters concerning the members of the United States Armed Forces.
Use U.S. laws against us
Al-Amriki, who was dressed in khaki fatigues and armed with a holstered pistol, spoke in what sounds like a New York City accent.
“Take advantage of the fact that you can easily obtain a rifle or a pistol in America,” the fighter implored. “Spray the kuffar [infidels] with bullets so that their fear of the Muslims rises and they continue to reveal their hatred towards Islam.”
The SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks Islamist militant media, also published a copy of the video. Watch the clip below.
President mocked
Al-Amriki also mocked President Donald Trump, and referred to him as a “dog of Rome.” Speaking directly to the president, he said:
You entered into the White House on the back of your crusader rhetoric, which the fake media has pressured you to tone down.Your feelings and hatred towards Islam has already been revealed … you are now witnessing your fake victory.Your war against Islam has only made your homeland more vulnerable and your society is cracking into chaos.
ISIS attack a growing concern
Neither the Department of Homeland Security nor the FBI have been able to confirm al-Amriki’s identity, and had no immediate comment on the veracity of his claims.
But the possibility that ISIS followers in the United States will acquire powerful weapons by legal means has been a growing concern of American counterterrorism officials.Just last week, the outgoing director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Nicholas Rasmussen, told reporters that permissive U.S. gun laws enable mass murders who want to carry out large-scale attacks.
“We find ourselves in a more dangerous situation because our population of violent extremists has no difficulty gaining access to weapons that are quite lethal,” Rasmussen said. “I wish that weren’t so.”
The answer, then, would be to prevent the violent extremists from entering the country, something Trump has been trying to accomplish through his travel ban and by strengthening border security. Democrats and the courts have been fighting him on both, however.
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In a response to the New York terror attacks this November, (carried out with a truck, not a gun), mayor Bill De Blasio said: “even in the depths of our grief, we will not stop being who we are and we will not change our values. And I have to just thank all the people of New York City for the way they addressed this crisis by immediately showing the terrorists would not change our way of life.”
De Blasio’s words were meant to curb the growth of anti-Islam sentiment, but they could just as well be applied to the protection of constitutional guarantees. Our 2nd amendment rights, like our open societal norms, should not be infringed in the name of anti-terrorism.
