After US intelligence inputs warned about a possible terror attack by al-Qaeda militants in New York, Texas and Virginia, terror group ISIS called for the “slaughter” of US voters on Election Day.
ISIS demanded that Muslims should not participate in the democratic process because “there is no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties” as their policies are against Islam and Muslims.
The militant group also asked Muslims to not participate in “rituals of democracy” claiming both the US presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are anti-Islam.
Rita Katz, director of terrorist monitoring group SITE Intelligence Group, tweeted that the threats appeared in an essay titled The Murtad Vote and was carried by the Islamic State’s Al Hayat media center. It said that the militants “have come to slaughter you and smash your ballot boxes.”
“May Allah make this year’s U.S. presidential election a dreadful calamity like no other to have struck America throughout ts pathetic history,” the seven-page manifesto, entitled “The Murtad Vote,” read.
Murtad means a person born to a Muslim parent who later rejects Islam or a person who converted to Islam and later rejects the religion.
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