The Islamic State (IS) has warned that the terror group is preparing for fresh attacks in Bangladesh.
In the latest edition of its online propaganda magazine “Dabiq,” the extremist group's strategic expansion to countries like Bangladesh is discussed at length.
The extremist group dedicated an entire article to their activities in Bangladesh or "Bengal" as it refers to the country.
“A security cell belonging to the soldiers of the Khilafah in Bengal assassinated an Italian crusader named Cesare Tavella on the streets of Gulshan in the city of Dhaka … only days later another security cell targeted a Japanese citizen in the northern region of Rangpur,” the magazine said reiterating IS' claim of carrying out the attacks.
“These back-to-back attacks have caused havoc among the citizens of the crusader nations and their allies living in Bengal and forced their diplomats, tourists and expats to limit their movements and live in a constant state of fear,” it boasted.
The article titled “The Revival of Jihad in Bengal” claimed that while IS was busy preparing for further attacks, the secular Awami League government continued to “twist the facts” on the ground and play a blame game.
The terrorist group referred to the BNP-Jamaat alliance as a “coalition of murtaddin” – Arabic for “apostates.”
“The former government, which consisted mainly of a coalition of murtaddīn from both the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh (essentially the Indian subcontinent version of the so-called Muslim Brotherhood), foolishly thought that the call of tawhid, jihad, and khilafah would be crushed by the martyrdom of a few righteous scholars,” read a paragraph of the article.
“The tawaghit, the palace scholars, and those with diseased hearts forgot the promise of Allah, who said: 'They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light even if the kuffar despise such. They had forgotten that the tree of this Ummah is not watered except by the blood of its martyrs,” the article continued.
The IS piece calls banned Islamist militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) a “proper jihad organisation in Bangladesh based on the Quran and Sunnah.”
“The martyred mujahid scholar Shaykh Abdur Rahman successfully gathered a handful of muwahhidin from different parts of the land [Bangladesh] to form an organisation named “Jamaatul Mujahidin whose sole aim was establishing the law of Allah upon the earth,” it said.
The article claimed that Bangladesh had been drowned in “shirk and bidah” – Arabic for polytheism and religious innovation – for hundreds of years due to the “effects of both European colonisation and Hindu cultural invasion.”
It concluded by saying that the soldiers of the so-called caliphate would continue to rise and expand in “Bengal” and would continue to carry out acts of terrorism.
In the magazine, IS boasted that its “brave knights” brought Paris “down on its knees.”
The new issue of the English-language online magazine, in its foreword, talked about the horrific multiple attacks in Paris which claimed over 130 lives.
“France haughtily began executing air strikes against the Khilafah. Like Russia, it was blinded by hubris [arrogance], thinking that its geographical distance from the lands of the Khilafah would protect it,” the magazine read.
“Thus, Islamic State dispatched its brave knights to wage war in the homelands of the wicked crusaders, leaving Paris and its residents 'shocked and awed'. The eight knights brought Paris down on its knees,” it continued.
The terror group, known for its brutality, boasted that “a nationwide state of emergency was declared as a result of the actions of eight men armed only with assault rifles and explosive belts.”
IS also put out images of what it claims to be the bomb that downed a Russian jet last month, killing over 220 people.
The photograph shows a soft drink can and two components that appear to be a detonator and a switch.
In the magazine, IS slams Russia's joining of the war against it as a “rash decision of arrogance.”