ISIS Praises Volgograd Prison Attackers, Calls Russian Federation 'Christian Crusaders' – JP
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Two weeks ago, Islamic radical prisoners staged a takeover of a Russian prison in Volgograd, killing four prison workers, and injuring more. The prisoners were eventually killed by Russian snipers.
What has not been widely reported is the ‘religious aspect’ of the crimes.
ISIS leadership praised the incident as a ‘battle against Russian Christian crusaders.’
On August 23, 2024, pro-ISIS Central Asian militants launched yet another violent attack against representatives of the Russian authorities, directly challenging President Putin’s and FSB Chief Aleksandr Bortnikov’s assertion that U.S. and Ukrainian intelligence orchestrated the March ISKP Moscow Crocus City Hall attack, which resulted in 145 deaths and over 551 injuries. The Islamic State is likely to intensify its terror attacks within Russia to assert its sole responsibility for the Crocus City Hall attack and to forcefully demonstrate its “irreconcilable enmity” toward “all Kafirun” states, including the U.S. and Russia, writes Uran Botobekov, Ph.D in History.us.
Our long-term research reveals that jihadi propaganda consistently portrays Russia as an oppressor of Central Asian Muslims, both historically and in recent times, particularly due to its tightening of migration policies that restrict the economic, legal, and religious activities of Central Asian migrants.
They claimed the attack was “revenge for the torment of the Crocus City attackers and the oppression of Muslim believers in Russia.”
Five days later, on August 29, ISIS officially claimed responsibility for the attack by its Uzbek and Tajik fighters in Volgograd, as reported in issue 458 of its al-Naba magazine.
The editorial praised the attackers as ‘IS lions who placed the religion of Islam above worldly life’ and were accepted by Allah during their battle against the ‘Russian crusaders.’