Al Qaeda and IS call for revenge for the attack in New Zealand
The two largest jihadist groups in the world, the self-styled Islamic State and Al Qaeda, have published the last two separate communications in which they encourage their followers to take revenge for the double attack last Friday against mosques in New Zealand, which caused 50 deaths.
The Al Qaeda organization in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), the most active branch of al Qaeda, vowed to take revenge for the victims of New Zealand, and also ordered the "lone wolves" jihadists to attack the leaders of "the extremist right of Crusaders and anyone who has shown support for that cowardly operation ", in a statement issued by his media arm Al Andalus.
In addition, he affirmed that this attack demonstrates "the reality that several try to hide: the battle with the crossed West is religious", and that the "Christians" (referring to the Western countries) have been launching a war of crusades against Muslims for centuries , their religion and their potential. "
On the other hand, AQMI also called on Muslim communities living in Western countries to leave these countries and return to the "land of Islam".
"We fear that what happened to their Muslim brothers in Andalus, Sicily and other places happened to them centuries ago. (Neither) the crimes of genocide against Bosnian Muslims are so far away," AQMI said in a statement issued by his arm. media
The jihadist organization said that Muslims residing in the West are in danger before the rise of "crusader, populist and rightist movements", so he urged them to "defend themselves" and protect their mosques.
On the other hand, the spokesman of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS), Abu Hassan al Muhayir, considered in a tape issued by the group's forums that the attack in New Zealand is a first step towards a "misery" that will suffer Muslims who chose to live among the "infidels".
In addition, he urged IS sympathizers in these countries to perpetrate avenging attacks.
The attack in New Zealand was attributed by the authorities to Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian who was not under police surveillance and whose actions forced him to raise the security alert.
Tarrant retransmitió during 17 minutes the attack and shortly before the event published a manifesto of 74 pages, that spread some social networks, full of invectives against the Muslims and in which it is defined as "racist" and "fascist".
