In what comes as little surprise to most quality counterterrorism experts, Rukmini Callimachi of the New York Times reports that ISIS is celebrating President Trump’s immigration ban:
8. The resident said ISIS has been openly celebrating the ban. They’ve even coined a phrase for it: الحظر المبارك
Or “The Blessed Ban”
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) February 8, 2017
9. Why are they calling it a “Blessed Ban?” Because ISIS sees this as *their* doing. They succeeded in scaring the daylight out of America
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) February 8, 2017
10. ISIS, according to this resident of Western Mosul, thinks their terror tactic worked. They frightened the most powerful man in the world
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) February 8, 2017
11. And they are celebrating, he says, because it proves to their followers that America really does “hate” Islam.
— Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) February 8, 2017
