An African American ISIS fighter, that goes by the nom de guerre Abu Salih al-Amriki, posted a special video message to President Donald Trump this week, the Independent reports.
The video features al-Amriki speaking directly to the camera; during one segment, the ISIS fighter can be seen walking on a prosthetic leg amidst the ruins of structures shattered by airstrikes, pistol at his side.
In it, al-Amriki claims that Trump’s “war against Islam has only made your homeland more vulnerable and your society is cracking into chaos.”
The solider also told Trump that he “entered into the White House on the back of your Crusader rhetoric, which the fake media has pressured you to tone down,” but warned that Trump’s moment in the sun would be short-lived.
Seeming to acknowledge the president’s recent Muslim ban win and Islamaphobic tweets, al-Amriki said Trump’s “feelings and hatred towards Islam has already been revealed … you are now witnessing a fake victory.”
The real victory, al-Amriki suggested, will come once ISIS sympathizers around the world “rise and strike the kuffar.” (Kuffar is a word meaning unbelivers.)
Al-Amriki also suggested that the president is playing right into ISIS’ hands, arguing that the more Americans fear and hate Muslims, the easier it is for ISIS to recruit soldiers.
Echoing another English-language ISIS video posted on Christmas, in which a militant boldly proclaimed that the Islamic State’s black flag would fly “from Washington to Moscow, from Europe to China,” al-Amriki claimed that there would come a time when ISIS’ flag would be “raised over the White House.”
This newest video comes just days after a successful U.S.-led operation into caves formerly used by ISIS in Syria’s Hamad Desert.
ISIS once controlled vast swaths of Syria, Iraq and Libya, but the organization’s self-proclaimed state has rapidly decreased in size this year thanks to attacks from Kurdish forces, the Iraqi Army, the Syrian Army, Russia and the United States.
In the face of these territorial losses, ISIS has lashed out — footage from two attacks on U.S. soil claimed by the group, one in Las Vegas and one in Orlando, appeared in al-Amriki’s video.
A recent video released by ISIS’ Somalian faction called for Las Vegas-style attacks on New Year’s Eve and Christmas celebrations as well as on holiday markets, bars and the Pope.
ISIS has also released help guides for those that want to carry out attacks but lack training. These guides show how to easily obtain firearms, how to make bombs from ordinary materials, best practices for knife attacks and how to use legal items, like trucks, to kill many people at once.
In his message, al-Amriki reminds the American people that their country has more guns in it than people, and that these weapons make attacks easy.
“Take advantage of the fact you can easily obtain a rifle or pistol in America and spray the kuffar with bullets so that their fear of Muslims rises, and they continue to reveal their hated towards Islam for the ummah [community] to rise,” al-Amriki said.
