The al-Qaeda offshoot group in East Africa al-Shabaab released a propaganda video in the first days of Ramadan condemning the United States as the “Satan of our time.”
The video urges Islamic extremists to “fulfill the obligation of jihad” and expel the “global coalition of disbelievers” that includes America and other Western countries from Muslim lands.
U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered the American military to escalate airstrikes against the Somalia-based terrorist group.
Al-Shabaab jihadists, in response, vowed to intensify deadly attacks as part of a “doubled response” to President Trump’s approval of expanded U.S. military efforts against it, recently revealed the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi websites.
In the 55-minute video titled, “They Are Not Welcome — They Shall Burn In Their Fire,” al-Shabaab stresses its adherence to global jihadist principles, noting that “defending Muslim lands is from the most important of individual obligations,” reports the Long War Journal (LWJ).