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A pro-Al-Qaeda poster urged Muslims to avenge Islam by assassinating heads of state. The poster came after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on July 13, 2024.
"Removing The Heads Of Unbelief Is Not Difficult"
On July 26, 2024, Sandar Al-Ghafiqi, a prolific supporter of Al-Qaeda, released a poster on the Al-Qaeda-operated Rocket.Chat server. The poster was titled, "It's Not Impossible," and featured images of a pistol, bullets, and a hooded assassin.
The poster's Arabic language text argued that the attempted assassination of Trump leaves no excuse for Muslims to not, themselves, attempt to assassinate "the heads of unbelief and crime." The poster read:
"The attempted assassination of former American President Trump in recent days reproaches all those who are able to avenge Islam and its people against the heads of unbelief and crime [but who have not], and it repudiates the difficulty of the act ,and its impossibility. Look how death almost caught by surprise the bumbling idiot Trump, who was among his supporters and guards on his own turf. This confirms that removing the heads of unbelief is not difficult. If the false beliefs and perverse ideas of an unbelieving boy pushed him to commit this act, then how will it be with a believer who trusts in the Almighty, who affirms His victory, who wants martyrdom in His path, who walks with a heart yearning to avenge Islam, and in whose ears is the cry of his bereaved mother, and before whose eyes are the blood and dismembered limbs of his people and loved ones?!"
The text continued, concluding by inciting Muslims to attack "bloodthirsty non-Arab criminals" and "apostate Arab normalizers [with Israel]." It also reminded Muslims that "it's up to you to try, and the results are left to Allah Almighty, who will not fail you."
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