According to an alarming UN report, “ISIS is back…regaining strength….ready for war” and has “gathered 30,000 fighters and could be preparing for a wave of offensives around the world”.

This comes as no surprise to those who understand the reality of jihad terror.

Meanwhile Al-Qaeda also remains dangerous, with powerful franchises in Yemen, Somalia and parts of north Africa.  According to the report Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri is “projecting his authority more effectively than he could previously”.

According to the UN report, “there are also fears that ISIS fighters returning from Iraq and Syria could carry out attacks, especially in Europe.”

Jihadists everywhere, as well as the Muslim Brotherhood, are being increasingly emboldened worldwide while too many Western leaders are terrified to be branded with labels which are intended to manipulate people, such as “populist,” “racist,” “Islamophobic,” “anti-immigrant,” and the like.

Muslim Brotherhood operatives also work tirelessly in Western countries to indoctrinate people with the idea that violence is separate from Islam. Yet there is a superabundance of writings by Muslims clearly stating that it is the duty of Muslims to wage jihad in expanding the House of Islam. “Taliban Hamsa,” who was in charge of indoctrinating and recruiting for the Islamic State, “dared the police to call in a religious expert to prove his assertion that the “ISIS is true Islam.” Even a WaPo article entitled “Does ISIS really have nothing to do with Islam” stated:

If you actually look at ISIS’s approach to governance, it would be difficult – impossible, really – to conclude that it is just making things up as it goes along and then giving it an Islamic luster only after the fact.

The truth is that the Islamic State rigidly adhered to Islamic texts and represented (and still represents) a reformist movement harking back to Islam’s early roots of conquest. This is precisely what makes it most troubling and also attractive to its zealous following.

The Islamic State, despite efforts to make it appear to be an aberration of Islam, garnered state support from Turkey — a country that is ambitiously moving toward EU membership. There were also “suspicions of Turkey recruiting ex-Isis fighters by the thousands to attack Kurds in Syria.” Islamic State sex slaves were also being auctioned off in Saudi Arabia. The UN report warned:The underlying drivers of terrorism are all present and perhaps more acute than ever before.

“‘ISIS is BACK’ – Terror group ready for WAR with 30,000 fighters according to UN report”, by James Bickerton, Express, August 15, 2018:

The dramatic report claims ISIS is regaining strength in the deserts of western Iraq and eastern Syria, with between 20,000 and 30,000 fighters in the region.

According to the report these include: “A significant component of the many thousands of active foreign fighters.”

ISIS fighters are also “hiding out in sympathetic communities and urban areas” as the group focuses increasingly on guerrilla warfare.

The report claims that ISIS is particularly gaining strength in western Iraq, though it retains sizeable pockets in Syria.

The past 18 months have seen ISIS suffer a stunning series of defeats, with the group losing much of its self-styled state.

In July 2017 Iraqi and Kurdish forces, backed by Western airpower, recaptured Iraq’s third city of Mosul after a fierce battle.

This was followed by the fall of Raqqa, which ISIS had made its capital, to a coalition of Kurds and Syrian rebels in October.

At its peak around 10 million people lived under ISIS control, which extended from north of Baghdad in Iraq to the suburbs of Aleppo in Syria.

jihadwatch.org, August 16, 2018 Please pray that those caught up in this violent movement of war and murder so controlled by the devil will be set free, coming to faith in Christ. Pray that the nations of our world will effectively and successfully fight against this false ideology and that it will lose its grip on the minds of its adherents and be destroyed.