ISIS Officially Taunts Trump, Ending a Conspicuous Silence
During the Mosul offensive, a civilian trapped in an area of the city under Islamic State control told The New York Times by telephone
that the group’s fighters on his street were jokingly calling Mr. Trump’s executive travel order "a blessed ban." Amarnath Amarasingam, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in London, has interviewed supporters of the Islamic State regarding this disconnect.
More than two months after Mr. Trump was sworn in as president, the Islamic State’s spokesman on Tuesday released the group’s first official statement on him, in an audio recording calling him an "idiot"
and deriding his attacks on Muslims, among other claims.
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHIAPRIL 4, 2017
Although members and supporters of the Islamic State have frequently commented on President Trump
and his policies, analysts have been puzzled by the terrorist group’s official silence about him.
"There is no more evidence than the fact that you are being run by an idiot who does not know what Syria or Iraq or Islam is." Some terrorism experts have called some of Mr. Trump’s statements
and policies — particularly his ban on visas for people from a selection of predominantly Muslim countries — a potential boon to propaganda by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
Islamic State said that I ask Allah to deliver America to Trump,
The group has long asserted that Muslims are victims of discrimination
and abuse in the West, and supporters and members of the Islamic State have seized on some of Mr. Trump’s statements as evidence of hostility toward Muslims.