by Walter W. Murray, reporter
ISIS militants are on the run around the world, being pushed back by an aggressive new advance led by President Donald Trump.
With rapidly diminishing power to launch attacks, the desperate murderers are resulting to outrageous new threats in an attempt to sow the seeds of fear.
The latest: They’re vowing to kill Santa Claus!
A propaganda image circulating online and traced to ISIS followers shows a stack of dynamite next to Santa Claus in Times Square.
“We meet at Christmas in New York… soon,” the image says.
Another shows a militant clad in all back – face covered, as is custom for these cowards – standing behind Santa, as if ready to behead the jolly old elf.
“Soon on your holidays,” the image says, with images of a Christmas market in London in the background.
Another shows a hand holding a bloody knife with the Eiffel Tower in Paris in the background.
The images are no doubt meant to be stark reminders of the attack last year in Berlin, where an ISIS sympathizer drove a truck through a crowd of holiday shoppers at a Christmas market.
Twelve people were killed and 56 injured.
“ISIS wants us all to be afraid,” radio host and columnist Buck Sexton, a former CIA officer in the Counterterrorism Center, wrote on The Hill. “That’s why in advance of the holidays, there are so many reports about specific ISIS terror targets. They are posting this information so that we will find it and react.”
Along with Christmas markets, they are also specifically threatening Christians and Christian leaders. One image threatens to behead Pope Francis, while another shows the Vatican and promises “Christmas blood.”
Still another depicts a terrorist and a wolf atop a mountain looking down on St. Peter’s Square and calls on lone wolf attackers to “show them the meaning of terror.”
“It’s not surprising to see threats like this against Pope Francis and Christianity, especially during the holiday season,” SITE Intelligence Group Director Rita Katz told Newsweek. “ISIS and its supporters know how to play the media game, and often time the releases of their threats to get the highest amount of attention as possible.”
While the call for lone wolf attacks suggests the group is relying on sympathizers to strike on their own rather than coordinated attacks, security experts say the threats all have to be taken seriously – and people around the world most remain vigilant here in the holiday season.
“For the fanatics of ISIS, there is no better time to inflict their misery and hatred upon us. Our holiday joy is an affront to their nihilistic sadism,” Sexton wrote on The Hill. “They not only hate us for our freedom, but for the displays of happiness, prosperity, and unity.”
That means in addition to staying alert, it is incumbent on freedom-loving people everywhere to do something else to stop the terrorists: Celebrate. Celebrate, and show them we don’t fear them, and won’t let them ruin our holidays.
— Walter W. Murray is a reporter for The Horn News. He is a survival expert with decades of experience in prepping and the author of “America’s Final Warning.”