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raccoon

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Thu Feb 9, 2017, 10:46 AM Feb 2017

The "blessed ban"--And some idiots think this dipshit is going to keep the US safe!???!!!!

ISIS is reportedly calling Trump's travel ban 'the blessed ban

Pamela Engel,Business Insider 19 hours ago

The terrorist group ISIS has reportedly branded President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration "the Blessed Ban" as it seemingly proves that the West is at war with Islam. New York Times terrorism correspondent Rukmini Callimachi reported from Iraq that ISIS has been talking about Trump's travel ban, which bars refugees and citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries — identified as hot spots for terrorism — from entering the US.

Callimachi is in Mosul, ISIS' stronghold in Iraq that is slowly being liberated from the terrorist group.
"The resident said ISIS has been openly celebrating the ban," Callimachi tweeted. "They've even coined a phrase for it: الحظر المبارك — or 'The Blessed Ban.'"... "ISIS sees this as *their* doing. They succeeded in scaring the daylight out of America."

"ISIS, according to this resident of Western Mosul, thinks their terror tactic worked. They frightened the most powerful man in the world," Callimachi said, referring to Trump.
ISIS has been silent on the ban on its official propaganda channels, but the group's supporters have been cheering it online... Terrorism experts opposed to the ban have said it will end up helping ISIS recruit more people as it pushes its message that the West is at war with Islam. US legal actions that seem to target Muslims could play into that narrative.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/isis-reportedly-calling-trumps-travel-192704284.html

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The "blessed ban"--And some idiots think this dipshit is going to keep the US safe!???!!!! (Original Post) raccoon Feb 2017 OP
Wow just wow Lotusflower70 Feb 2017 #1
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