'If they can't beat us on the battlefield they can beat us through God's vengeance, they believe.'
While much of the United States and Europe has been staying home to avoid COVID-19 as it kills thousands, terrorist groups are blasting online propaganda messages toward followers and potential recruits which hail the calamity of the disease as divine retribution.
COVID-19 has killed more than 47,000 people worldwide but there are relatively few cases in regions where Islamist extremist groups have their strongholds, such as in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Arabian Peninsula and the Sahel region of North Africa.
FILE - In this March 24, 2020, file photo, medical workers oversee the disinfection of streets in order to halt the spread of the new coronavirus in Qamishli, Syria. Both the Islamic State group and al-Qaida see the global upheaval caused by the new coronavirus as a threat but also as an opportunity to strike harder than before, asserting that the virus is punishment for non-Muslims while also urging followers to repent and take care of themselves.
Bleeding the U.S. economy dry has always been a goal of the terrorist group, and the financial cost of 9/11 was something its late leader Osama Bin Laden often spoke of as a great success. Will it succeed? Zelin and Costa expressed skepticism that either the"god's vengeance" or soft-power approaches will draw in a significant number of converts and recruits."They may draw some troubled personalities and in-betweeners, folks on the extreme edges of society," Costa said.
FILE PHOTO: YPG is written over a wall painting of ISIS flag inside a house, in the border town of Tal Abyad, Syria, October 16, 2019."The last thing they hope for today, is that this difficult time will coincide with the preparations of the soldiers of the Caliphate for new strikes on them, similar to those of Paris, London, and Brussels and elsewhere," ISIS said on Tuesday in its al-Naba publication.
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